No one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins will be destroyed. Instead, they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”
These wine skins that we filled were new, but look, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.”
they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,