Read Luke 5 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
Luke 5:27-39 Chiastic Structure (the whole chapter also makes a Chiastic Structure):
In the parable of the new wine and new wineskins, Jesus is teaching the scribes and the Pharisees why there is a necessity for a new covenant, even if they don’t know that is what He is teaching them yet.
We saw in Luke 3, that the new covenant provided for the new birth (Joh 3:5), the new heart (Eze 11:19-20), and the new nature (2 Cor 5:17). All of this new wine had to be put into a new wineskin, that is, the new covenant.
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. Heb 8:6
The old covenant required us to obey the Father’s commandments written on two tablets of stone outside the man. With the new covenant, we obey the Father’s commandments written on the tablets of our heart inside the man, from a new nature. That is one thing that is better about the better promise. But we do not make the mistake of some, and disregard the Law altogther.
Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the Law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Mat 5:17-19
If there are questions, this is a good resource:
Matthew 5, The law and prophets fulfilled – Christine Miller
Hebrews 8, The better covenant – Christine Miller
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