![]() ![]() In most cultures, cloth shrinks when it is washed, and it you put an unprewashed piece of material onto cloth that has already shrunk, when it is washed it will itself shrink and tear a hole. The reference of the two parables is fairly straightforward. And none of you, after drinking old wine, wants the new, for you say, ‘The old is better.’ (Luke 5.36–39) No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. ![]() If they do, the new wine will burst the skins the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. And people do not pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins. If they do, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. If they do, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. If they do, the skins will burst the wine will run out, and the wineskins will be ruined. No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. In all three Synoptic gospels, Jesus concludes a conversation about the contrast between his teaching and practice and that of the Pharisees (and John the Baptist) by means of a parable about wine and wineskins. ![]()
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