1. What is the question that Jesus is answering here?
    1. He was asked about the nature of the new covenant.
    2. He was asked about being born again.
    3. Right Answer!He was asked why John's disciples, and the disciples of the Pharisees, fast, but Jesus' do not.
    4. Both (b) and (c) above.

     

  2. Who is the bridegroom that Jesus is referring to?
    1. Right Answer!Himself.
    2. Any bridegroom, it doesn't matter.
    3. The Kings son.
    4. It doesn't matter, it is just an example.

     

  3. When will, or was, the bridegroom taken away?
    1. It is just a story, the bridegroom was not taken away.
    2. In the garden of Eden, back when the man and the woman fell from grace.
    3. Right Answer!When Jesus was crucified.
    4. When Israel left Egypt.

     

  4. What does the parable mean?
    1. It means that you must be born again to receive the new covenant.
    2. Right Answer!It means that a new covenant requires you to abandon the things that you do because of tradition and react to what is happening now.
    3. It means that drinking wine was okay under the old covenant, but only "new wine", that is, grape juice can be consumed under the new covenant.
    4. He means that you should no longer listen to the Old Testament now that the New Testament has come.

     

  5. What does Jesus mean by pouring new wine into new wineskins?
    1. Right Answer!He means that you should read the Bible without preconceived ideas about what it means, and let it form you into what it wants.
    2. He means that Christians should not drink alcoholic wine.
    3. He means that Christians should fast old wine, but not new wine.
    4. He means that we should not let old sins soil our new birth.

     

  6. What does Jesus mean by not patching an old garment with material removed from a new garment?
    1. He means that we should not try to fix our old life, but we should abandon it for a new life.
    2. He means that you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
    3. He means that if you do, you will ruin the new shirt and the old shirt.
    4. Right Answer!He means that you should not try to correct the problems of the old covenant, with revelations brought with the new covenant.

     

  7. What does Jesus mean by saying, "And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, "The old is better'"?
    1. He means that the old covenant is better than the new.
    2. Right Answer!He means that if someone is happy with the way things are now then they will not listen to correction.
    3. He means that if you are a drunk you will not like unfermented grape juice.
    4. He means that aged wine is better tasting that new wine.

     

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