Luke 5:39 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better. ”

Luke 5:39 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage illustrated in the notes at Matthew 9:14-17 . Luke 5:39 Having drunk old wine ... - Wine increases its strength and flavor, and its mildness and mellowness, by age, and th...
Luke 5:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Question of Fasting ( Mark 2:18-22 *, Matthew 9:14-17 *). Lk.'s interest in prayer is again ( cf. Luke 5:16 ) seen in Luke 5:33 , with which cf. Luke 11:1 . The recasting of the saying...
Luke 5:39 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

better . good. So all the texts.
Luke 5:39 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 5:39 . And no person who has drunk old wine. This statement is given by Luke alone, and is undoubtedly connected with the preceding discourse. Though commentators have tortured it in a...
Luke 5:39 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better. The old is better - ΧρηϚοτερος - Is more agreeable to the taste or palate. Herodotus, the scholiast on A...
Luke 5:39 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

No man also, having drunk old wine— That is, "As people who have been accustomed to drink wine made mellow with age, do not willingly drink new wine, which for the most part is harsh and unpleasant...
Luke 5:39 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better. No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new; for he saith, The old is better. These...
Luke 5:39 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Miraculous Draught of Fishes. The Palsied Man 1-11. First miraculous draught of fishes (peculiar to Lk). Many critics identify this incident with that recorded in Matthew 4:18 and Mark 1:16 . B...
Luke 5:39 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(33-39) W hy do the disciples of John fast? — See Notes on Matthew 9:14-17 ; Mark 2:18-22 . St. Luke is less definite than the other two in stating who the questioners were. It is only from St. Ma...
Luke 5:39 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Feasting and Fasting Luke 5:27-39 Matthew in his Gospel says nothing of this great feast; the Spirit of God saw that it should not be forgotten. “When saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee?” M...
Luke 5:39 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Four of Jesus' disciples, already called into the relation of discipleship, are here called more definitely to service. Taking command of their vessel, to which in all probability they had returned w...
Luke 5:39 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(27) And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. (28) And he left all, rose up, and followed him. (29) And...
Luke 5:39 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE EXCELLENCE OF THE LITURGY ‘No man having drunk old wine desireth new; for he saith, The old is better.’ Luke 5:39 The excellency of the Liturgy of the Church of England! This is proved b...
Luke 5:39 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

No man also having drunk old wine ,.... "Wine", though not in the text, is rightly supplied by our translators, as it is by the Syriac and Persic versions: straightway desireth new ; new wine: fo...
Luke 5:39 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 wi...
Luke 5:39 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The contents of these verses occur Matthew 9:14-17 , where they are explained at large. The disciples of John fast and make prayers Long and solemn prayers: but thine eat and drink Freely, thoug...
Luke 5:39 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

PETER, JAMES AND JOHN CALLED AS DISCIPLES (vs.1-11) It is good to read in verse 1 that by the Lake of Gennesaret (or Sea of Galilee) the people pressed upon the Lord Jesus, not to see miracles, b...
Luke 5:39 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Call of Matthew; Watchfulness Inculcated. 27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at t...
Luke 5:39 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " Luke 5:33 "
Luke 5:39 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“And no man having drunk old wine desires new, for he says, “The old is good.” But there will always be those who cling to the old wine and prefer it to the new, saying the old is better. That is wh...
Luke 5:39 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Luke 5:33 .—St. Luke here omits the remarkable fact, noted by St. Matthew and St. Mark, that disciples of John the Baptist joined with disciples of the Pharisees in putting this qu...
Luke 5:39 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 5:3 . He sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. Here he used those beautiful parables, in Matthew 13 .; but Matthew's gospel being extant, St. Luke does not repeat the parables in...
Luke 5:39 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION When St. Luke compiled his Gospel, many of the circumstances connected with the early relations of the leaders of Christianity with their Founder were so well known, and had been so o...
Luke 5:39 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbial sayings:
Luke 5:39 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 11:1 ; Hebrews 11:2 ; Hebrews 11:39 ; Jeremiah 6:16 ; Mark 7:7-13 ; Romans 4:11 ; Romans 4:12
Luke 5:39 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And no man having drunk old wine — And beside, men are not wont to be immediately freed from old prejudices.

Luke 5:39 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Luke 5:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 5:39 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Luke 5:39 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 5:39 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Luke 5:39 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Luke 5:39 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Luke 5:39 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 5:39 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Luke 5:39 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Luke 5:39 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Luke 5:39 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Luke 5:39 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Luke 5:39 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Luke 5:39 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Luke 5:39 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 5:39 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 5:39 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Luke 5:39 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Luke 5:39 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 5:39 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Luke 5:39 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 5:39 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Luke 5:39 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Luke 5:39 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 5:39 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes