Jul 13, 2026 · 49 min · 10 segments
Highland Christian Church - Asheville, NC Communicator - Jacob Prater Luke 5:33-39 - "New wine must be stored in new wineskins." Jesus isn’t patching holes that religion can’t meet, He’s doing…
Jacob PraterGuest
Jason GarrisHost
Directly after, in Luke chapter 5, what Jason preached on last week, Jesus approaches Matthew, the tax collector, at his money-changing table, and he calls Matthew to follow him.
Matthew gets up from his money table, leaves everything, and begins to follow Jesus.
And then Matthew hosts a great feast with other tax collectors and sinners, as the Pharisees described them just a few verses before.
And right before we read this passage, Jesus is pressed by the Pharisees for why does he even socialize? Why is he even caught dead at this table with such outcasts? Now this is really important to paint the picture of the scene.
Luke 5.29 says, Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining at the table with them.
Who were the guests? The tax collectors and the others, okay? So how do we know that the Pharisees weren't the others? Because how they press Jesus, the very nature of the question is that they would not be caught dead at this table.
How does that make any sense for us? So we have to understand that in this time, how a feast, a banquet at someone's house actually worked back in that day.
Homes of any size in that culture, but especially homes of prominence and wealth like Matthew's home would have been built around a central courtyard.
And when somebody hosted a banquet, they would host that meal in one of two places.
They would either host it in a room that faced the courtyard with a courtyard view, and it would have a big open window for light and for ventilation to keep the air moving.
Or if the crowd was big enough, they would host the banquet out in the courtyard itself, okay? So it was either right in front of the banquet or it was in the banquet.
And the door to the courtyard was, would be left open, okay? Their meals were much different than how we do it in the West.
So you've got people that are walking by constantly in the middle of this meal.
Directly after, in Luke chapter 5, what Jason preached on last week, Jesus approaches Matthew, the tax collector, at his money-changing table, and he calls Matthew to follow him.
Matthew gets up from his money table, leaves everything, and begins to follow Jesus.
And then Matthew hosts a great feast with other tax collectors and sinners, as the Pharisees described them just a few verses before.
And right before we read this passage, Jesus is pressed by the Pharisees for why does he even socialize? Why is he even caught dead at this table with such outcasts? Now this is really important to paint the picture of the scene.
Luke 5.29 says, Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining at the table with them.
Who were the guests? The tax collectors and the others, okay? So how do we know that the Pharisees weren't the others? Because how they press Jesus, the very nature of the question is that they would not be caught dead at this table.
How does that make any sense for us? So we have to understand that in this time, how a feast, a banquet at someone's house actually worked back in that day.
Homes of any size in that culture, but especially homes of prominence and wealth like Matthew's home would have been built around a central courtyard.
And when somebody hosted a banquet, they would host that meal in one of two places.
They would either host it in a room that faced the courtyard with a courtyard view, and it would have a big open window for light and for ventilation to keep the air moving.
Or if the crowd was big enough, they would host the banquet out in the courtyard itself, okay? So it was either right in front of the banquet or it was in the banquet.
And the door to the courtyard was, would be left open, okay? Their meals were much different than how we do it in the West.
So you've got people that are walking by constantly in the middle of this meal.
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