Hey everyone.

Welcome to Logical Bible Study Podcast.

This is a Catholic podcast where we really look at the text of scripture.

We really do our best to understand what the text is saying. So we do an ex really look at the text of scripture. We really do our best to

understand what the text is saying. So we do an exegesis of the text. And we're moving through

the Gospel of Luke at the moment. So today, if you go to Mass, you would hear from Luke

chapter 5 versus 33 to 39. So we'll read the text. And then we'll try and pull it apart a bit. What does it mean on the

literal level? The Pharisees and the scribes said to Jesus, John's disciples are always fasting and

saying prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees too, but yours go on eating and drinking. Jesus replied, surely you cannot make the

bridegroom's attendance fast while the bridegroom is still with them, but the time will come,

the time for the bridegroom to be taken away from them. That will be the time when they will fast.

He also told them this parable. No one tears a piece. that will be the time when they will fast.

He also told them this parable.

No one tears a piece from a new cloak to put it on old cloak.

If he does, not only will he have torn the new one,

but the piece taken from the new will not match the old.

And nobody puts new wine into old skins.

If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and then run out, and the skins will be lost.

No, new wine must be put into fresh skins.

And nobody who has been drinking old wine wants new. The old is good, he says.

So that's our reading for today. Let's start by asking ourselves, what's the context? So Jesus by this point has begun his ministry in Galilee. He's been curing people. He's been calling

his first apostles. The last thing that

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