New Living Translation
Then Jesus gave them this illustration: 'No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to patch an old garment. For then the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn't even match the old garment.
King James Bible
And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
Darby Bible Translation
And he spoke also a parable to them: No one puts a piece of a new garment upon an old garment, otherwise he will both rend the new, and the piece which is from the new will not suit with the old.
World English Bible
He also told a parable to them. 'No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
Young's Literal Translation
And he spake also a simile unto them -- 'No one a patch of new clothing doth put on old clothing, and if otherwise, the new also doth make a rent, and with the old the patch doth not agree, that is from the new.
Luke 5:36 Parallel
Wesley's Notes on the BibleThen Jesus gave them this illustration: 'No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to patch an old garment. For then the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn't even match the old garment.
King James Bible
And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
Darby Bible Translation
And he spoke also a parable to them: No one puts a piece of a new garment upon an old garment, otherwise he will both rend the new, and the piece which is from the new will not suit with the old.
World English Bible
He also told a parable to them. 'No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
Young's Literal Translation
And he spake also a simile unto them -- 'No one a patch of new clothing doth put on old clothing, and if otherwise, the new also doth make a rent, and with the old the patch doth not agree, that is from the new.
Luke 5:36 Parallel
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5:36 He spake also a parable - Taken from clothes and wine; therefore peculiarly proper at a feast.
“Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it isthe skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved” (v. Matthew 9:14–17 From an argument with the Pharisees over the propriety of eating with sinners (Matt. 9:10–13), Jesus moves to a. No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.
Library
Blasphemer, or --Who?'And it came to pass on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. 18. And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before Him. 19. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the house-top, …
Alexander Maclaren--Expositions Of Holy Scripture
'The Moody and Sankey Humbug. '
There was a man, while we were in London, who got out a little paper called 'The Moody and Sankey Humbug.' He used to have it to sell to the people coming into the meeting. After he had sold a great many thousand copies of that number, he wanted to get out another number; so he came to the meeting to get something to put into the paper; but the power of the Lord was present. It says here in this chapter (Luke 5) that the Pharisees, scribes, and doctors, were watching the words of Christ in that house …
Dwight L. Moody--Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations
There was a man, while we were in London, who got out a little paper called 'The Moody and Sankey Humbug.' He used to have it to sell to the people coming into the meeting. After he had sold a great many thousand copies of that number, he wanted to get out another number; so he came to the meeting to get something to put into the paper; but the power of the Lord was present. It says here in this chapter (Luke 5) that the Pharisees, scribes, and doctors, were watching the words of Christ in that house …
Dwight L. Moody--Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations
Absolution.
Preached June 2, 1850. ABSOLUTION. 'And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?'--Luke v. 21. There are questions which having been again and again settled, still from time to time, present themselves for re-solution; errors which having been refuted, and cut up by the roots, re-appear in the next century as fresh and vigorous as ever. Like the fabled monsters of old, from whose dissevered neck the blood …
Frederick W. Robertson--Sermons Preached at Brighton
Preached June 2, 1850. ABSOLUTION. 'And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?'--Luke v. 21. There are questions which having been again and again settled, still from time to time, present themselves for re-solution; errors which having been refuted, and cut up by the roots, re-appear in the next century as fresh and vigorous as ever. Like the fabled monsters of old, from whose dissevered neck the blood …
Frederick W. Robertson--Sermons Preached at Brighton
Carried by Four
When our Lord left his retirement he found the crowd around him exceeding great, and it was as motley as it was great; for while here were many sincere believers, there were still more sceptical observers; some were anxious to receive his healing power, others equally desirous to find occasion against him. So in all congregations, however the preacher may be clothed with his Master's spirit and his Master's might, there will be a mixed gathering; there will come together your Pharisees and doctors …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon--Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871
When our Lord left his retirement he found the crowd around him exceeding great, and it was as motley as it was great; for while here were many sincere believers, there were still more sceptical observers; some were anxious to receive his healing power, others equally desirous to find occasion against him. So in all congregations, however the preacher may be clothed with his Master's spirit and his Master's might, there will be a mixed gathering; there will come together your Pharisees and doctors …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon--Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871
Porter with a Wineskin, by Niko Pirosmani (before 1919)
New Wine into Old Wineskins is a parable of Jesus. It is found at Matthew 9:14-17, Mark 2:18-22 and Luke 5:33-39.
Passage[edit]
The parables follow the recruitment of Levi as a disciple of Jesus, and appear to be part of a discussion at a banquet held by him (Luke 5:29).[1] The parables are told in response to a question about fasting:
And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink? And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
— Luke 5:33-35, KJV
Jesus' response continues with the two short parables. Luke has the more detailed version:
And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
Interpretation[edit]
The two parables relate to the relationship between Jesus' teaching and traditional Judaism.[2] According to some interpreters, Jesus here 'pits his own, new way against the old way of the Pharisees and their scribes.'[1] In the early second century, Marcion, founder of Marcionism, used the passage to justify a 'total separation between the religion that Jesus and Paul espoused and that of the Hebrew Scriptures.'[3]
Other interpreters see Luke as giving Christianity roots in Jewish antiquity,[1] although 'Jesus has brought something new, and the rituals and traditions of official Judaism cannot contain it.'[4]
In his commentary on Matthew, Mark, and Luke,[5]John Calvin states that the old wineskins and the old garment represent Jesus' disciples, and the new wine and unshrunk cloth represent the practice of fasting twice a week. Fasting this way would be burdensome to the new disciples, and would be more than they could bear.[6]
Based on parallel rabbinic sayings found in Pirkei Avot, one interpreter sees the parable as depicting the difficulty of teaching disciples with prior learning as compared to teaching new, uneducated disciples.[7][8]
The metaphors in the two parables were drawn from contemporary culture.[2] New cloth had not yet shrunk, so that using new cloth to patch older clothing would result in a tear as it began to shrink.[9] Similarly, old wineskins had been 'stretched to the limit'[9] or become brittle[2] as wine had fermented inside them; using them again therefore risked bursting them.[9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abcJoel B. Green, The Gospel of Luke, Eerdmans, 1997, ISBN0-8028-2315-7, pp. 248-250.
- ^ abcJames R. Edwards, The Gospel According to Mark, Eerdmans, 2002, ISBN0-85111-778-3, pp. 91-92.
- ^Joseph B. Tyson, Marcion and Luke-Acts: A defining struggle, University of South Carolina Press, 2006, ISBN1-57003-650-0, p. 32.
- ^R. T. France, The Gospel According to Matthew: An introduction and commentary, Eerdmans, 1985, ISBN0-8028-0063-7, p. 169.
- ^Calvin's Commentaries, Vol. 31: Matthew, Mark and Luke, Part I
- ^Calvin's Commentary, Volume XVI, Baker: Grand Rapids, 1981, p. 408; also online.
- ^Lancaster, D. Thomas. 'New Wine and Old Wineskins'. Beth Immanuel. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ^Lancaster, D. Thomas (2014). Chronicles of the Messiah, Book 2 (2nd ed.). First Fruits of Zion. pp. 381–386. ISBN978-1-892124-77-7.
- ^ abcCraig S. Keener, A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Eerdmans, 1999, ISBN0-8028-3821-9, pp. 300-301.
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