An Old Garment

Mark 2:21-22 ESV

21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”

The old cloth of the first covenant is worn and ragged. It is torn in many places, snagged by thorns and rent in despair. It no longer covered the body as intended. It had been disregarded and flung aside on many occasions. It was soiled and shrunken, though the wearers could not see it as they took pride in their finery. 

They are likened to old wineskins incapable of receiving new wine. They were proved to be so time and time again. 

Pride and arrogance would drive them to kill the Son of God in the name of God. The same spirit is in the world today.