Do Not Put a New Patch on an Old Garment

Luke 5:36. And He was then telling them a Parable that “Also, no one places a patch torn from a new garment upon an old garment: otherwise, even the new will tear and the patch which was from the new garment will not fit on the old. 37. And no one puts new wine into old skins: otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will itself be poured out and the skins will be destroyed. 38. But you must put new wine into new skins. 39. But no one drinking old wants new: for he says ‘The old is suitable.

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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.