Luke 5:33-39

Contemporary English Version

People Ask about Going without Eating

(Matthew 9.14-17; Mark 2.18-22)

³³ Some people said to Jesus, “John's followers often pray and go without eating,^[a] and so do the followers of the Pharisees. But your disciples never go without eating or drinking.”

³⁴ Jesus told them, “The friends of a bridegroom don't go without eating while he is still with them. ³⁵ But the time will come when he will be taken from them. Then they will go without eating.”

³⁶ Jesus then told them these sayings:

No one uses a new piece of cloth to patch old clothes. The patch would shrink and make the hole even bigger.

³⁷ No one pours new wine into old wineskins. The new wine would swell and burst the old skins.^[b] Then the wine would be lost, and the skins would be ruined. ³⁸ New wine must be put only into new wineskins.

³⁹ No one wants new wine after drinking old wine. They say, “The old wine is better.”