If he does, he will fail to teach the new student, and the lesson meant for the new student will be rejected by the old student.". "No one takes a lesson meant for a new student and tries to teach it to an old (already educated) student. The passage says, "And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new for he says, 'The old is good enough.'" ( NASB) Rather than incompatibility of new and old religious structures, it has been suggested that the parable of new and old wineskins is about the nature of teaching and those who are taught. Others view the phrase in Luke 5:39 in conflict with these interpretations. In the early second century Marcion used it to justify his doctrine of Marcionism. Some Christians have used it to propose new ways of being Christian or even entirely new forms of Christianity. Many, especially Christians, have interpreted it as Jesus saying he was the start of a new religion separate from Judaism, and from that of John the Baptist, for example see Ignatius of Antioch Magnesians X and List of events in early Christianity. Taken together with Jesus' similar statement about not using new cloth to patch old clothing ( Mark 2:21), this saying is often interpreted to mean that Jesus' new teaching will not fit within the Jewish religion, or within the religious structures of the time, see also Supersessionism. Similarly, new cloth would be expected to shrink considerably, so using it to patch already-shrunken cloth would cause problems. If new wine was put into a hardened wineskin, the continued fermentation risked bursting the skin. Wineskins would stretch with new wine being put in as it continues to ferment, and then they would harden. The metaphors were drawn from contemporary culture. In the three synoptic gospels the saying is given immediately after the recruitment of Levi/ Matthew to be a follower, and is given as a secondary justification for why Jesus' disciples do not fast, even though those of John the Baptist do ( Mark 2:18-20). And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, “The old is good.” ’ NRSV But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. The wording is similar in all three gospels except for the additional verses recorded by Luke.Īnd no one puts new wine into old wineskins otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. New Wine into Old Wineskins is a saying of Jesus found in the Gospel of Matthew 9:17, Gospel of Mark 2:22 and Gospel of Luke 5:37-39.
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