1. These verses record four encounters with the scribes and Pharisees. What were the grounds of their growing opposition to Jesus? And what were the truths and the principles (as His answers reveal) determined the actions of Jesus?
2. 5:36-39. What happens when formal religion encounters the new life which Jesus brings? How do the incidents in today's passage illustrate the truth of these verses?
Stibbs, A. (1949). Search the Scriptures: The Study Guide to the Bible. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press.
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1. They grew more angry with Jesus because they thought He was breaking the laws of Moses. They were more concerned with the law than with loving people. Jesus did these things to fulfil prophesies about Himself and to indicate who He was - the doctor of the sick, the bridegroom, the Son of Man.
2. Old religion does not fit with the New life of Jesus. The old clothes cannot be reparied with the new clothes or both will be wrecked. The old clothes have to be discarded. Similarly the new wine cannot be put in old skins, in other words, the Holy Spirit cannot enter our old selves. We have to be like new wine skins ready to hold the hold new. We also have to then reject the old wine, otherwise we'll only want that and we won't enter into new life with Jesus.
1. their opposition was based on a) why he would deal with sinners, b) why do you not fast?
c) why do they do unlawful things on the sabbath?
d) why do they heal on the sabbath
the truths were that of, dealing with sinners to repent rather than those that already are, that good is better than evil.
2. we need to be completely changed for God, not leave the old life there as well.
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