Luke 5:39

better. good. So all the texts.

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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 flavo...
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 wh...
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 dis...
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...
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 win...
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 de...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Call of Levi, and the controversy as to fasting ( Matthew 9:9 ; Mark 2:13 ). See on Mt.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

(Peculiar to Lk.) Christ means that He cannot expect the disciples of John and of the Pharisees, who have tasted the old wine of the Law, and found i...
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 statin...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

No man also having drunk old wine. — This addition is peculiar to St. Luke, and calls accordingly for distinct notice. The interpretation of the im...
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...
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 vesse...
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) An...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS Reader! think what privileges the men of that generation possessed, which had Christ himself for their preacher! He, who was himself the...
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...
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 ve...
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 pi...
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 solem...
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 p...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Call of Matthew; Watchfulness Inculcated. 27 And after these things he went f...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " Luke 5:33 "
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 i...
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...
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...
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 t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbial sayings:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

No man also, having drunk old wine, straightway desireth new; for he saith, The old is better. Here are three parabolic or proverbial sayings by w...
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
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

³⁹ No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

Related Commentaries of Luke 5:39

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Luke 5:39