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Luke 5:35-37
EasyEnglish Bible
Luke 5:35-37
EasyEnglish Bible
35 But there will be a time when people take that man away from his friends. Then they will decide to fast.’[a]
36 Jesus told them this story: ‘Nobody tears a piece of cloth from a new coat to mend an old coat. If he does that, he will have torn the new coat. Also, the piece of cloth from the new coat will not look the same as the old coat.[b]
37 And nobody pours new wine into old wineskins.[c] If he does that, the new wine will tear the old wineskins. He will lose the wine and the wineskins will also spoil.
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- 5:35 Jesus is teaching that his disciples will be happy while he is still with them. But he will not always be with them. Then they will be sad and they may choose to fast.
- 5:36 Men were teaching people about the rules that God gave to them. In this picture story the old cloth is what these men taught. The new cloth is what Jesus was teaching. God gave his rules to his people by Moses. Those that taught these rules often taught their own ideas instead. This was why Jesus so often spoke against them. He also spoke against what they taught.
- 5:37 Wine grows bigger while it is getting older. But old wineskins become hard. New wine would cause them to break as it gets older.
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