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The Book of Jesus Chapter Four: The life of Jesus from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John in easy-to-read, chronological format.
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New Wine In Old Wine Skins
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NARRATOR.
John's disciples then came to him and said:
JOHN'S DISCIPLES.
Why is it that we and the disciples of the Pharisees are always saying prayers and fasting, but your disciples eat, drink and don't fast?
JESUS.
Can the children of the bridal room mourn and fast while the bridegroom is still with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with
them, they can't fast. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. In those days, then they will fast.
No man uses a new, unshrunken piece of cloth to repair an old garment. The patch will shrink and rip the garment even more. The
patch, taken from new fabric, will not match the material of the old garment. Nobody puts new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the
wine will burst the old wineskins and spill out. The wine will be lost and the wineskins will be ruined.
But new wine must be put into new wineskins and both the wine and their containers will be preserved. A man, when he has tasted an
aged wine, does not request new wine for he says; 'The old is better.'
Matthew 9:14-17, Mark 2:18-22, Luke 5:33-39
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The Sabbath Was Made For Man
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NARRATOR.
Now one Sabbath day, Jesus happened to be taking a walk through the cornfields. His disciples were hungry and began to pick ears of
corn, rubbing them in their hands and eating them as they walked along. But when some of the Pharisees saw what they were doing,
they said to him:
PHARISEES.
Look, your disciples are doing something that's forbidden to do on the Sabbath...Why are they doing something on the Sabbath that's
not lawful.
JESUS.
Haven't you read as much as this; what David in his time of need did when he and his followers were hungry, how he went into the
House of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest and took the loaves of offering and ate them and also gave some to the men with
him? Loaves which neither he nor his followers were allowed to eat, but which were only the priests. Or haven't you read in the Law
that on the Sabbath days the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are blameless?
Now here I tell you is someone greater than the Temple and if you had understood the meaning of the words; 'What I want is mercy,
not sacrifice", you would not have condemned the blameless. The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of
Man is master even of the Sabbath.
NARRATOR.
And Jesus moved on from there.
Matthew 12:1-9..., Mark 2:23-28, Luke 6:1-5
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