Luke 5:37

Easy To Read Version

People never pour new wine into old wine bags. {\cf2\super [104]} Why? Because the new wine will break the bags, and the wine will spill out and the wine bags will be ruined.

Cross References

Psalm 119:83

Even when I am like a dried wineskin\par on the trash pile,\par I will not forget your laws.\par

Matthew 9:17

Also, people never pour new wine into old wine bags. {\cf2\super [112]} Why? Because the old bags will break. The wine will spill, and the wine bags will be ruined. But people always pour new wine into new wine bags. Then the wine and the wine bags will continue to be good.”

Luke 5:36

Jesus told them this story: “No person takes cloth off a new coat to cover a hole on an old coat. Why? Because he ruins the new coat, and the cloth from the new coat will not be the same as the old cloth.

Luke 5:38

People always put new wine into new wine bags.

Joshua 9:13

See our wineskins! When we left home they were new and filled with wine. Now you can see that they are cracked and old. See our clothes and sandals! You can see that the long journey has almost destroyed the things we wear.”

Joshua 9:4

So those people decided to try to fool the people of Israel. This was their plan: They gathered together old wineskins [45] that were cracked and broken. They put these old wine skins on the backs of their animals. They put old pieces of cloth on their animals to look like they had traveled from far away.