what does matthew 9:16 mean? what message does this parable mean?

Answer 1

To me it means
We are the old garment, You can not take on a new garment to make a whole
with this said
All the Teaching,Preaching that is done to you, If you are not ready to take on the Lord our God and Jesus our Savior, then you will not be whole,
Thus if you try but it is not in your heart of hearts to accept
fully,then you have put on the new garment over the old
and the rent is still there

Answer 2

Matthew 9:16 (KJV) No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.

Jesus is replying to what was asked in verse 14.
We're talking New and Old covenants here; Out with the Old in with the New. Out with the works of the law (the works became like rituals, the heart of man was not with God). This did not please God.

Rent is a gap.....Jesus fills that gap reconciling man to God. We're saved by grace, we must have faith to please God, not the works of the law.

Answer 3

In ancient times, goatskins were used to hold wine. As the fresh grape juice fermented, the wine would expand, adn the new wineskin would stretch. But a used skin, already stretched, would break. Jesus brings a newness that cannot be confined with the old forms.

Answer 4

Please find below the message Matthew 9:16 wishes to imply:

"That they had not strength sufficient for that duty. This is set forth in two similitudes, one of putting new cloth into an old garment, which does but pull the old to pieces (v. 16); the other of putting new wine into old bottles, which does but burst the bottles, v. 17. Christ’s disciples were not able to bear these severe exercises so well as those of John and of the Pharisees, which the learned Dr. Whitby gives this reason for: There were among the Jews not only sects of the Pharisees and Essenes, who led an austere life, but also schools of the prophets, who frequently lived in mountains and deserts, and were many of them Nazarites; they had also private academies to train men up in a strict discipline; and possibly from these many of John’s disciples might come, and many of the Pharisees; whereas Christ’s disciples, being taken immediately from their callings, had not been used to such religious austerities, and were unfit for them, and would by them be rather unfitted for their other work. Note, (1.) Some duties of religion are harder and more difficult than others, like new cloth and new wine, which require most intenseness of mind, and are most displeasing to flesh and blood; such are religious fasting and the duties that attend it. (2.) The best of Christ’s disciples pass through a state of infancy; all the trees in Christ’s garden are not of a growth, nor all his scholars in the same form; there are babes in Christ and grown men. (3.) In the enjoining of religious exercises, the weakness and infirmity of young Christians ought to be considered: as the food provided for them must be such as is proper for their age (1 Co. 3:2; Heb. 5:12), so must the work be that is cut out for them. Christ would not speak to his disciples that which they could not then bear, Jn. 16:12. Young beginners in religion must not be put upon the hardest duties at first, lest they be discouraged. Such as was God’s care of his Israel, when he brought them out of Egypt, not to lead them by the way of the Philistines (Ex. 13:17, 18), and such as was Jacob’s care of his children and cattle, not to overdrive them (Gen. 33:13), such is Christ’s care of the little ones of his family, and the lambs of his flock: he gently leads them. For want of this care, many times, the bottles break, and the wine is spilled; the profession of many miscarries and comes to nothing, through indiscretion at first. Note, There may be over—doing even in well—doing, a being righteous over-much; and such an over—doing as may prove an undoing through the subtlety of Satan."

Answer 5

I think it means that Jesus considered that he had a radical new system of belief that should not be superimposed on the old. In other words, he would have been horrified, presumably, that his later followers added his teachings to the old testament to form the Christian bible. But really, you'll have to ask him for the definitive answer.

Answer 6

cool give me one second.......
Got it !
Grace can not be apply to the formality of the law of moses
Grace replaces the formality of the law
Garment = covering
God was/is covering his people by a Better Covenant
Grace by faith on them who believe on his Son Jesus the christ
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Answer 7

You don't put new cloth on an old garment and you don't put new wine into old wineskins. Christ was something new and they were trying to force Him into the old law, and it didn't work.

Answer 8

It means truth and lies cannot mix, or come to an "agreeance" with each other. Otherwise, you get sugar-coated lies.