Well, I missed this one. It came up indirectly in class today, I made a short leap, and the sermon confirmed it. At Jesus's first miracle, another of those announcements of "Look at what God is doing here," the old wine is not as good and eventually runs out. It's not unacceptable wine. It's fine, but finite. The New wine is better and not only does not run out, but remains in abundance. After the guests leave there will still be lots of wine, same as the pieces of bread left over after the Feeding of the 5K.
It's a tight little symbol of the Old Covenant being superseded by the New. The OT by the NT. I mentioned this sheepishly to a young woman in the worship band, admitting I had never seen this before. A smile played at the edge of her mouth, as they say. "Old wineskins?"
Hmm, yeah, I missed it even with the hints. They teach them well at Grove City College, don't they?
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I'm stumped. Where does it say that the new wine remains in abundance?
The size of the jars is known to be between 20-30 gallons each. The guests would have made a dent in that, but it's a lot.
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