Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.
Parallel translations
- WEB But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.
- KJV But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
- NKJV But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
- NASB But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
- NLT New wine must be stored in new wineskins.
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Quick answer
New wine belongs in fresh wineskins so both are preserved. The Kingdom calls for renewal, not mere reform.
Overview
Jesus concludes that new wine must go into fresh skins, and then both are kept safe. The point is the need for newness of heart and form to receive the gospel. This does not abolish God's prior revelation but fulfills it in a way the old structures, clung to rigidly, could not contain.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Heb 8:8–13But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
- 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
- Ezek 36:26I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
- Rev 21:5And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”
- Gal 4:9–11But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
- Gal 5:1–6It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
- 1 Tim 4:8For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
- Heb 13:9–10Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.
- Col 2:19–23He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
- Gal 2:12–14For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.
- Gal 6:13–14For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
- Gal 2:4This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
- Phil 3:5–7circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
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