Luke 5:36
34 Jesus replied, “Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them?
35 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.”
He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will tear the new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined.
38 Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will tear the new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
- KJV
- And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
- WEB
- He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
- ASV
- And he spake also a parable unto them: No man rendeth a piece from a new garment and putteth it upon an old garment; else he will rend the new, and also the piece from the new will not agree with the old.
- DARBY
- And he spoke also a parable to them: No one puts a piece of a new garment upon an old garment, otherwise he will both rend the new, and the piece which is from the new will not suit with the old.
- BLB
- And He was speaking also a parable to them: “No one having torn a patch from a new garment puts [it] on an old garment. and if otherwise, he will tear the new also, and the old will not match the patch from the new.
- ÅB
- Han sa også en lignelse til dem: Ingen river en lapp av et nytt klesplagg og setter den på et gammelt; ellers river han det nye i stykker, og lappen av det nye passer ikke til det gamle.
- OTB
- Han fortalte dem denne lignelsen: «Ingen river et stykke fra et nytt plagg for å lappe et gammelt. Ellers vil de ha revet det nye plagget, og lappen fra det nye vil ikke passe til det gamle.
- B1930
- Han sa også en lignelse til dem: Ingen river en lapp av et nytt klædebon og setter den på et gammelt; ellers river han det nye i sønder, og lappen av det nye passer ikke til det gamle.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 9:16–17
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.
Read in contextMark 2:21–22
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.
Read in context2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
Read in contextLeviticus 19:19
You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 22:11
Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
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