Fresh wine as a biblical symbol of the Spirit, the new covenant, and eschatological joy. Christ's parable: neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved (Matt 9:17). The image: the new wine of the kingdom Christ is bringing cannot be contained within the old wineskins of legalistic Pharisaism; both need renewal. At Pentecost, the mockers accuse the disciples of being full of new wine (Acts 2:13) — an accusation Peter answers by explaining that what they see is the outpouring of the Spirit prophesied by Joel. New wine in Scripture also signals the eschatological feast (Isa 25:6; Joel 3:18; Amos 9:13; Christ's promise in Matt 26:29 to drink new wine with His disciples in the Father's kingdom). The Christian life is new wine in new wineskins — the Spirit-given joy of the kingdom.