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Luke 5:33-39: New Wine and New Wineskins

June 19, 2025

2 Kings 12-13, Psalm 119:145-152, Luke 5:33-39, Philippians 2:19-30  Luke 5:33-39: On the surface, this is a fairly prosaic question about fasting. Jesus is in the middle of a feast (5:27-31) with tax collectors and “sinners,” and the disparity between that behavior and the more ascetically minded John the Baptist, and even that of the Pharisees, is quite…

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