Charles Spurgeon Commentary Mark 2:21-22

"No man seweth a piece of undressed cloth on an old garment: else that which should fill it up taketh from it, the new from the old, and a worse rent is made. And no man putteth new wine into old wineskins; else the wine will burst the skins, and the wine perisheth, and the skins: but [they put] new wine into fresh wine-skins." — Mark 2:21-22 (ASV)

The bottles were made of skin, and the wine put into them must be of a suitable kind. To prescribe fasting to His disciples, while He was making them glad with His personal presence, would have been incongruous and absurd; and there are some things that we should not expect from young Christians, and other things that we should not expect from old and mature Christians. We should not expect to find new wine in old bottles, nor old wine in new bottles.

"A place for everything, and everything in its place," is not only a rule for the home and the merchant's office, but it is also a rule which should be observed in the Church of Christ; for God, as a God of order, always puts things in their proper places, and in due order.