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New Cloth and New Wine

In Galilee

Luke 5:33–39

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Luke 5:33–39

33And they said to him, "Why do John's disciples fast often and pray, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same, but yours eat and drink?" 34He said to them, “Can you make the bridegroom’s attendants fast while the bridegroom is with them?” 35But the time will come when the groom is taken away from them. When that day comes, they will fast." 36He also told them a parable: "Nobody tears a patch from a new garment to sew it on an old one. If you did, you'd ruin the new garment, and the new patch wouldn't match the old fabric anyway. 37And nobody pours new wine into old wineskins. If you did, the new wine would burst the skins — the wine would spill out and the skins would be ruined. 38New wine has to go into fresh wineskins, and then both are preserved. 39And no one who has been drinking aged wine wants new wine right away, because they say, 'The old is better.'"

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What the parable says

Asked why his disciples did not fast, Jesus said wedding guests do not fast while the bridegroom is with them. Then he told a parable. No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment, or pours new wine into old wineskins. Doing so would ruin both, so new wine must go into new wineskins.

Where this fits

One of 45 passages in Jesus' Parables, in the group “In Galilee.”

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