Luke 5:33-39
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
Why Do Your Disciples Not Fast? The Bridegroom Is Here. New Wineskins
33 And the ones said to Him, “The disciples of John are fasting[a] frequently and making prayers. Likewise also the ones of the Pharisees. But Yours are eating and drinking”. 34 And Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the sons[b] of the wedding-hall fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? 35 But days will come. And when the bridegroom is taken-away from them, then they will fast in those days”. 36 And He was also speaking a parable to them, that “No one having torn a patch from a new garment puts it on an old garment. Otherwise indeed he[c] will both tear the new, and the patch from the new will not agree[d] with the old. 37 And no one puts new[e] wine into old wineskins. Otherwise indeed the new wine will burst the wineskins, and it will spill-out, and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 But new wine must-be-put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one having drunk old wine desires[f] new. For he says, ‘The old is good’”.
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- Luke 5:33 On why these two groups may have been fasting, see Mt 9:14.
- Luke 5:34 That is, the attendants of the groom; the groomsmen.
- Luke 5:36 Or, it; such an action as just described.
- Luke 5:36 Or, fit, match. Jesus is not a patch on the old Jewish system. He is a new garment, so His disciples behave in a new way.
- Luke 5:37 Jesus, the new and fresh, cannot be contained in the old Jewish system.
- Luke 5:39 Those in the old Jewish system are comfortable with it, and not naturally inclined to drink the new wine Jesus brings.
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