Luke 5:36-39,Mark 2:21-22,Matthew 9:16-17

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 5:36-39

5:36-39 He spoke a parable to them like this: "Nobody puts a patch from a new garment on an old garment. If he does the new will tear it and the patch from the new will not match the old. No one puts new wine into old skins. If he does the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled and the skins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new skins, and no one who drinks old wine wishes for new for he says, 'The old is good.'" There is in religious people a kind of passion for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:36

And he spake also a parable unto them ,.... The Scribes and Pharisees; illustrating what he had just now said: no man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old ; by "a piece of a new garment" meaning the new and upstart notions and traditions of the elders, which were so in comparison of the law of Moses; and by the "old", the robe of their own righteousness, wrought out in obedience to the moral and ceremonial law: and Christ suggests, that to join these together, in order to patch... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:37

And no man putteth new wine into old bottles ,.... To which the Scribes and Pharisees are here compared, into whose hearts the new wine of Gospel grace was not put; or to whom was not made known the love of God Comparable to new wine; nor the blessings of the new covenant of grace, now exhibited; nor the truths of the Gospel now more clearly and newly revealed. Else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled ; they not being able to receive and bear these things, no, not the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:38

But new wine must be put into new bottles ,.... Such as the disciples of Christ were, and sinners called to repentance are, who are renewed by the Spirit and grace of God: and these are filled with spiritual joy and comfort, as with new wine, arising from discoveries of the love of God, a view of interest in the blessings of the covenant, and an application of Gospel truths and promises. And both are preserved ; both these renewed ones, who are preserved unto the kingdom and glory of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:39

No man also having drunk old wine ,.... "Wine", though not in the text, is rightly supplied by our translators, as it is by the Syriac and Persic versions: straightway desireth new ; new wine: for he saith, the old is better ; old wine is more grateful, more generous, and more reviving to the spirits, than new wine is. This is a proverbial expression, and which Luke only records; which may be applied to natural men, who having drunk the old wine of their carnal lusts and pleasures,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 5:37

The new wine will burst the bottles - These old bottles would not be able to stand the fermentation of the new wine, as the old sewing would be apt to give way. It is scarcely necessary to remark, that the eastern bottles are made of skins; generally those of goats. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 5:39

The old is better - ΧρηϚοτερος - Is more agreeable to the taste or palate. Herodotus, the scholiast on Aristophanes, and Homer, use the word in this sense. See Raphelius. The old wine, among the rabbins, was the wine of three leaves; that is, wine three years old; because, from the time that the vine had produced that wine, it had put forth its leaves three times. See Lightfoot. The miraculous draught of fishes, the cleansing of the leper, the healing of the paralytic person, the calling... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 5:39

Verse 39 Luke 5:39.And no person who has drunk old wine. This statement is given by Luke alone, and is undoubtedly connected with the preceding discourse. Though commentators have tortured it in a variety of ways, I take it simply as a warning to the Pharisees not to attach undue importance to a received custom. For how comes it that wine, the taste of which remains unaltered, is not equally agreeable to every palate, but because custom and habit form the taste? Hence it follows, that Christ’s... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 5:1-39

The association of Jesus and these chosen men seems to have commenced as follows: Simon (Peter) and his brother Andrew (sons of Jona), John and James (the sons of Zebedee and Salome), belonged to fisher families dwelling on the banks of the Lake of Gennesaret. They seemed to have been fast friends, at times even partners in their occupation. Sharers with many others of the youth of Israel of their time, in a passionate hope that the hour of the long-promised deliverance from the yoke of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 5:27-39

The call of Levi, and the subsequent banquet. We noticed how, at the healing of the paralytic, there was a critical assemblage. Secretly did they impugn the absolution pronounced by the Master, and publicly were they refuted. Immediately after, it would seem from all the accounts, Jesus takes the bold step of calling a publican to become his disciple. It was a throwing down of the gauntlet to his enemies. It was taking up a man whom they had excommunicated and despised, and so bringing the... read more

Luke 5:36-39,mark 2:21-22,matthew 9:16-17

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 5:36-39

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:39

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 5:37

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 5:39

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 5:39

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 5:1-39

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 5:27-39

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