Q. "How do you drink new wine?" A. "Fast!"

A couple years ago, I asked the question(s) below on our forum. I am still intriguinated by the question, and the answers so far. Click at bottom to see the anwers and articles that came in.
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Re: wineskins

There is obviously a key connection between fasting/mourning and new wineskins..in all 3 synoptic gospels, when Jesus is asked about why his disciples don't fast, he answers by
1)substitting the word mourn for fast (at leastn is some of the gospels)
2)immediately moving into wineskins discussion
3)following by an intersting connection to the above theme:

In Matthew, the healing/raising of two women follows. In Mark and Luke,
the episode about picking grain illegally on the sabbath folllows

So, my questions to y'all, especially #2:

1)connect fasting and mourning? (John Piper: "Fasting is not technically a commandment...it is a prediction of what will seem normal for thsoe who miss the Bridegroom..fasting is the exclamation point on a 'maranatha' prayer")
2)what is the connection about fasting/wineskins?
3) what is key about the context immediately following these sections that illumine fasting/wineskin?

Click this to see Matthew Mark and Luke passages on the same page to compare:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%209:14-26;Mark%202:19-28;Luke%205:33-6:5;&version=49;

This is not a 'set up" , contest or test..where i have an answer in mind..i don't know the answer(s) to this new question for me..

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Q. "How do you drink new wine?" A. "Fast!"