Mar 2:22 And no man puts new wine into old bottles: else the new wine bursts the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

In Christ's use of symbols, the cycle of liquids is from water (physical), to wine (mental) to blood(emotional ). When you realize that the word translated as "bottles" actually means "skin" as in "wineskin," this verse has a very interesting transposition: "Noone puts new blood into old skin else the blood bursts the skin and the blood is spilled and the skin is destroyed, but new wine must be put into new skin."

Here, Christ is referring again to the relationship between the old teaching of Judaism (specially, the topic of fasting) as an old skin that cannot contain the new wine, which represents ideas, or the new blood, meaning relationships. His new teaching (specifically, the topic of eating and drinking but beyond that enjoying life) is a new skin that is necessary to contain the new ideas and the new relationships created by Christianity.

As an aside, a minister recently wrote me suggesting that the words of Christ in the Bible were no different from any other words because they were all inspire by the Holy Ghost. I cannot offer an opinion on this idea because I readily admit that I don't try to comprehend the nature of divinity and discussion of the Trinity fall into that arena.

My writing is based on a simpler idea: that Christ was human on a real level and like all humans, he had a unique viewpoint on reality. As God in human form, that viewpoint is something more that our viewpoints, because it sees the whole story, not just a part. I think that those who wrote the Gospels tried to capture the words that Christ used to express his viewpoint as well as humanly possible. We can say that they were inspire by the Holy Spirit, but I believe that Christ really said this words or words that we as close as humanly possible to the ones that were recorded. Here, the Spirit's work wasn't to inspire a human mind to divine ideas, but simply to properly record the words in which those ideas were expressed.

Others may think that the words of Paul or Job or whoever have the same exact weight in communicating God's viewpoint to us, but I do not. Christ was not just a sacrifice. He was first and foremost a teacher.

"Bottles" is from askos (askos), which means "skin," "hide," "skin made into a bag," "wineskin," "belly," "paunch," and "human skin."

"Wine" is from oinos (oinos), which means "wine" and "fermented juice of any kind."

"Marred" is from apollumi, which is a very string form of "to destroy," "to kill," "to slay," and "to lose." It is translated as "lost" and "perish" elsewhere in Matthew. It means "to destroy utterly." It also means "to ruin" a woman.