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| The parables are told in response to a question about fasting: | The parables are told in response to a question about fasting: | ||
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{{quotation|They said to him, "John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking." Jesus answered, "Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast."|Luke 5:33-35, ]}} | ||
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{{quotation|He told them this parable: "No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is better.' "|Luke 5:36-39, ]}} | ||
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New Wine into Old Wineskins is one of a pair of parables told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matthew Matthew 9:14–17, Mark Mark 2:18–22, and Luke Luke 5:33–39. A version of the parables also appears in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas (Saying 47).
Passage
The parables are told in response to a question about fasting:
They said to him, "John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking." Jesus answered, "Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast."
— Luke 5:33-35, New International Version
Jesus' response continues with the two short parables. Luke has the more detailed version:
He told them this parable: "No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is better.' "
— Luke 5:36-39, New International Version
Interpretation
The parables follow the recruitment of Matthew as a disciple of Jesus, and appear to be part of a discussion at a banquet held by him (5:29 Luke 5:29).
The metaphors in the two parables were drawn from contemporary culture. New cloth had not yet shrunk, so that using new cloth to patch older clothing would result in a tear as it began to shrink. Similarly, old wineskins had been "stretched to the limit" or become brittle as wine had fermented inside them; using them again therefore risked bursting them.
The two parables relate to the relationship between Jesus' teaching and traditional Judaism.
According to some interpreters, Jesus here "pits his own, new way against the old way of the Pharisees and their scribes." In the early second century, Marcion, founder of Marcionism, used the passage to justify a "total separation between the religion that Jesus and Paul espoused and that of the Hebrew Scriptures."
Other interpreters see Luke as giving Christianity roots in Jewish antiquity, although "Jesus has brought something new, and the rituals and traditions of official Judaism cannot contain it."
See also
References
- Gospel of Thomas: Lamb translation and Patterson/Meyer translation.
- ^ Joel B. Green, The Gospel of Luke, Eerdmans, 1997, ISBN 0802823157, pp. 248-250.
- ^ James R. Edwards, The Gospel According to Mark, Eerdmans, 2002, ISBN 0851117783, pp. 91-92.
- ^ Craig S. Keener, A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Eerdmans, 1999, ISBN 0802838219, pp. 300-301.
- Joseph B. Tyson, Marcion and Luke-Acts: A defining struggle, University of South Carolina Press, 2006, ISBN 1570036500, p. 32.
- R. T. France, The Gospel According to Matthew: An introduction and commentary, Eerdmans, 1985, ISBN 0802800637, p. 169.