Luke 5:33-39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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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 about the patch (Luke 5:36) reflects a later age; Christianity was now a made-up garment, when Jesus spoke it was only in the piece.

Luke 5:39. Lk. only. If it was spoken on this occasion it means that John's disciples may rightly continue their own practices. It was not unbelief that kept them from the new wine of the Gospel. They did not set the one against the other (good not better is the true reading); but in the revival and repentance due to John's preaching they had found the old order good (as indeed it was), and they craved nothing more (Hort, Judaistic Christianity, 24). But perhaps it is simply put here by Lk. because it has to do with wine, just as Mark 9:49 f. collects sayings about salt.

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Luke 5:33-39

33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?

34 And he said unto them,Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

36 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.

37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.

38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.

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