Matthew 9:17
15 Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
16 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.
Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
18 While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”
19 So Jesus got up and went with him, along with His disciples.
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- BSB
- Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
- KJV
- Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
- WEB
- Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
- ASV
- Neither do [men] put new wine into old wine-skins: else the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins perish: but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins, and both are preserved.
- DARBY
- Nor do men put new wine into old skins, otherwise the skins burst and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into new skins, and both are preserved together.
- BLB
- Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins; and if otherwise, the wineskins are burst, and the wine is poured out, and the wineskins are destroyed. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
- ÅB
- Man fyller ikke ny vin i gamle skinnsekker heller; ellers revner sekkene, og vinen renner ut og sekkene ødelegges. Men man fyller ny vin i nye skinnsekker, så blir begge bevart.»
- OTB
- Heller ikke heller folk ny vin i gamle skinnsekker. Hvis de gjør det, vil sekkene sprekke, vinen vil renne ut, og skinnsekkene vil bli ødelagt. I stedet heller de ny vin i nye skinnsekker, og begge deler blir bevart."
- B1930
- Heller ikke fyller de ny vin i gamle skinnsekker; ellers revner sekkene, og vinen spilles, og sekkene ødelegges; men de fyller ny vin i nye skinnsekker, så blir begge deler berget.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 32:19
Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.
Read in contextJoshua 9:4
acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.
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