Hebrews 11:1; Hebrews 11:2; Hebrews 11:39; Jeremiah 6:16; Mark 7:7-13; Romans 4:11; Romans 4:12
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...
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...
better . good. So all the texts.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Miraculous Draught of Fishes. The Palsied Man 1-11. First miraculous draught of fishes (peculiar to Lk). Many critics identify this incident with...
Call of Levi, and the controversy as to fasting ( Matthew 9:9 ; Mark 2:13 ). See on Mt.
(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...
(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...
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...
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...
Four of Jesus' disciples, already called into the relation of discipleship, are here called more definitely to service. Taking command of their vesse...
(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...
REFLECTIONS Reader! think what privileges the men of that generation possessed, which had Christ himself for their preacher! He, who was himself the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Call of Matthew; Watchfulness Inculcated. 27 And after these things he went f...
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“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...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION When St. Luke compiled his Gospel, many of the circumstances connected with the early relations of the leaders of Christianity with t...
Proverbial sayings:
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...
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.