new. freshly made: i.e. young. Greek. neos = new as to time.
old bottles. old or dried skins.
bottles. wine skins.
else. otherwise.
break. burst.
perish. are ruined.
new bottles. fresh wineskins of newer quality or character. Greek. kainos.
preserved. preserved together.
Verse Matthew 9:17. _NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES_] It is still the custom, in the eastern countries, to make their bottles of _goat skins_: if these happened to be old, and new wine were put into them,...
THEN CAME THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN ... - This narrative is found also in Mark 2:18; Luke 5:33. The reference here is to John the Baptist. It is probable that they had understood that John was the forerun...
CHAPTER 9 1. A Man Sick of the Palsy Healed. (Matthew 9:1 .) 2. The Call of Matthew (Matthew 9:9 .) 3. With the Publicans and the Sinners. (Matthew 9:10 .) 4. The Question of John's Disciples. ...
FASTING. THE OLD AND THE NEW (Mark 2:18 *, Luke 5:33). Mt. makes the disciples of John (who were more numerous and important for two or three centuries than is usually recognized; _cf._ p. 797) put th...
THE GROWTH OF OPPOSITION (Matthew 9:1-34) We have repeatedly seen that in Matthew's gospel there is nothing haphazard. It is carefully planned and carefully designed. In Matthew 9:1-38 we see another...
"No one puts a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old garment, for, if he does, the patch which he uses to fill in the hole tears the garment apart, and the rent is worse than ever. No one puts new wine...
A Question about Fasting. Mark 2:18-22; Luke 5:33-39 It is not quite clear whether this further incident took place at Levi's feast. St Luke leads us to draw that inference....
_new wine into old bottles_ The Oriental bottles are skins of sheep or goats. Old bottles would crack and leak. This may be regarded as a further illustration of the doctrine taught in the preceding v...
A QUESTION ABOUT FASTING Mark 2:18-22; Luke 5:33-39. It is not quite clear whether this further incident took place at Levi’s feast. St Luke leads us to draw that inference....
ΟἾΝΟΝ ΝΈΟΝ ΕἸΣ�. The Oriental bottles are skins of sheep or goats. Old bottles would crack and leak. This may be regarded as a further illustration of the doctrine taught in the preceding verse. But i...
Ver 14. Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?" 15. And Jesus said unto them, "Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, a...
_COMPASSION CALLED FOLLOWERS AND ANSWERED CRITICISM MATTHEW 9:9-17:_ The compassion of Jesus called a hated man to follow Him. Matthew was a tax collector, a publican. Jesus called him to be His disci...
ΝΈΟΝ (G3501) _асс. sing._ новый, свежий. "Молодое вино" было устойчивым выражением, относящимся к свежевыжатому виноградному соку, который еще не перебродил или находился на начальной стадии брожения...
THEN CAME TO HIM THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN— Dr. Campbell translates the 16th and 17th verses thus: _Nobody mendeth an old garment with undressed cloth; else the patch itself teareth the garment, and maket...
SECTION 19 JESUS CALLS MATTHEW LEVI (Parallels: Mark 2:13-22; Luke 5:27-39) TEXT: 9:9-17 9. And as Jesus passed by from thence, he saw a man, called Matthew, sitting at the place of toll: and he...
_THEN CAME TO HIM THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN, SAYING, WHY DO WE AND THE PHARISEES FAST OFT, BUT THY DISCIPLES FAST_ _ NOT?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
14 It is a most difficult lesson for the saints to learn, that God's dealings with His creatures change, and that their conduct should change accordingly, John's disciples thought that the Lord's foll...
THE SICK OF THE PALSY. CALL OF MATTHEW. RAISING OF JAIRUS' DAUGHTER 1-8. The paralytic healed and his sins forgiven (Mark 2:1; Luke 5:17). The peculiarity of this miracle is that it was worked to prov...
CONTROVERSY WITH THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN AND WITH THE PHARISEES ON FASTING (Mark 2:18; Luke 5:33). Matthew's feast probably took place on a Monday or a Thursday, days which were observed by the Pharisee...
OLD BOTTLES] The most usual Eastern bottles are simply goat-skins drawn off the animal entire. The neck of the animal forms the neck of the bottle. Those used for wine are tanned with oak-bark and sea...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 9 3. THE MAN WHO COULD NOT WALK 9:1-8 V1 Then Jesus stepped into a boat. He went back across the lake and arrived at his own town. V...
NEITHER DO MEN PUT NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES. — The bottles are those made of hides partly tanned, and retaining, to a great extent, the form of the living animals. These, as they grew dry with age, b...
CHAPTER 8 The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1 - Matthew 9:1 REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing...
The substitution of νησ. τεύουσιν for πενθεῖν, in the close of Matthew 9:15, implicitly suggested a principle which is now explicitly stated in parabolic form: the great law of _congruity_; practice m...
The new parable of the wine and wine-skins is introduced, not merely because the Speaker is full of matter, but because it enables Him aptly to show both sides of the question, the twofold application...
_The fast-question_ (Mark 2:18-22; Luke 5:33-39). Τότε. Our evangelist makes a temporal connection out of what in Mark is merely topical, another of the group of incidents showing Jesus in conflict wi...
THE FRIEND OF SINNERS Matthew 9:9-17 The name Levi indicates that Matthew sprang from a priestly line. He had lost all self-respect to become the abhorred instrument of the Roman government, collect...
The King now exercised His authority in a new way. He pronounced pardon on a sinner, and straightway opposition was aroused. To the questioning and rebellious hearts He vindicated His authority to for...
_New wine into old bottles. [3] These vessels were made of skins, or were leather bottles, in which wine used to be carried and kept. (Witham) --- They were made of goat-skins prepared and sewed toget...
It is wonderful to see how fond men have been in All ages to substitute anything, and everything, in the room of real godliness, and a change of heart. Fasting and alms-giving, and services, however c...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
In the following chapter (chapter 9), while acting in the character and according to the power of Jehovah (as we read in Psalms 103), "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases...
NEITHER DO MEN PUT NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES,.... As in the former parable, our Lord exposes the folly of the Scribes and Pharisees, in their zealous attachment to the traditions of the elders; so in...
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. Ver. 17. _Neith...
_No man putteth a piece of new cloth_, &c. Our Lord, having assigned one reason why he did not enjoin his disciples to fast, namely, because it was not a proper time for it, now proceeds to give anoth...
INTO OLD BOTTLES; bottles were then made, not of glass, but of the skins of animals. Of course, those that were old would be rotten; and new wine, if put into them, would, in the process of fermentati...
Further parabolic sayings:...
NEITHER DO MEN PUT NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES; ELSE THE BOTTLES BREAK, AND THE WINE RUNNETH OUT, AND THE BOTTLES PERISH. BUT THEY PUT NEW WINE INTO NEW BOTTLES, AND BOTH ARE PRESERVED. Just as Christ h...
Returning to His own city, Capernaum, He has brought to Him a man totally helpless, lying on a bed. This case of palsy is indicative of the complete debilitating effects of sin: man is left without st...
BOTTLES: Or, sacks of skin, or, leather...
14-17 John was at this time in prison; his circumstances, his character, and the nature of the message he was sent to deliver, led those who were peculiarly attached to him, to keep frequent fasts. C...
Ver. 14-17. Mark hath this same history, almost in the same words, MARK 2:18, only he saith that some of the disciples of the Pharisees came with the disciples of John. Luke also hath it varying littl...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV -plainly announced that liberty which distinguishes the new covenant, and the new wine which is put into new bottles,[540] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with th...
Matthew 9:17 Nor G3761 put G906 (G5719) new G3501 wine G3631 into G1519 old G3820 wineskins G779 else...
“Neither do men put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins perish. But they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.” The point...
JESUS HAS COME AS THE BRIDEGROOM BRINGING SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW (9:14-17). Having revealed Himself as the Great Physician, a further incident about fasting leads on to His revelation of Himself as the...
WHAT JESUS HAS TO OFFER AND THE GROWTH OF PHARISAIC OPPOSITION (9:10-34). We are now informed about the first open opposition among the Pharisees to Jesus. The Pharisees had seemingly previously appro...
Matthew 9:17. NEITHER DO MEN PUT NEW WINE INTO OLD SKINS, etc. The skin-bottles common in the East Old ones would burst from the fermenting of the new wine, which would distend new ones without injury...
CHRONOLOGY AND CONNECTION. Three Evangelists join together the events we group in this section. Mark and Luke, however, place them immediately after the healing of the leper near Capernaum. We agree w...
OLD WINESKINS (ασκους παλαιους). Not glass " BOTTLES " but wineskins used as bottles as is true in Palestine yet, goatskins with the rough part inside. "Our word _bottle_ originally carried the true...
Matthew 9:17 There is an ever-living freshness in the words of Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels. In reading them we are not with mere antiquarian curiosity studying the history of events wholly uncon...
Matthew 9:1. _And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city._ Our Lord had given these Gergesenes an opportunity of becoming his disciples, the kingdom of God had come very...
Matthew 9:1. _And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city. And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto...
CONTENTS: Healing of the palsied man. Call of Matthew. Answering the Pharisees. Healing of woman with issue of blood. Daughter of a ruler raised from the dead. Two blind men healed. A demon cast out....
Matthew 9:1. _Jesus came into his own city,_ Capernaum, as in Mark. Our Saviour was a stranger on earth, born in Bethlehem, an exile in Egypt, resident at Nazareth, but latterly in Capernaum. Matthew...
NOR DOES ANYONE POUR. Wine was kept in skin "bottles." New wine would ferment and burst the old skins that had become rigid....
_New wine into old bottles._ GARMENTS AND WINE SKINS By these illustrations our Lord conveyed a lesson on the charm of naturalness and the law of congruity in religion, 1. As old cloth and new clot...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 9:16 UNSHRUNK CLOTH ON AN OLD GARMENT.... NEW WINE IS PUT INTO FRESH WINESKINS. See note on Luke 5:36–39....
RELIGIOUS LEADERS ASK JESUS ABOUT FASTING MATTHEW 9:14-17; MARK 2:18-22; LUKE 5:33-39; MATTHEW 9:14 Then came to him the disciples of J
CHAPTER 9 _Passed over_ : that is, sailed across the sea of Galilee, to its western side. _And came into his own city._ Sedulius thinks Bethlehem is meant because he was born there. S. Jerome, with mo...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 9:14. THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN.—The passage is interesting as showing: 1. That the followers of the Baptist continued during our Lord’s ministry to form a separate body (as in M...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 9:1 _The_ _paralytic forgiven and healed. _Parallel passages: Mark 2:1; Luke 5:17. (For connexion of thought, cf....
And so he entered into a ship, and he passed over, and he came to his own city (Matthew 9:1). His own city being Capernaum. I told you that was his headquarters. And, behold, they brought to him a ma...
Job 32:19; Joshua 9:4; Psalms 119:83...
Bottles [α σ κ ο υ ς]. Rev., rightly, wine - skins, though our word bottle originally carried the true meaning, being a bottle of leather. In Spanish, bota means leather bottle, a boot, and a butt. In...
EATING WITH SINNERS Matthew 9:9 INTRODUCTORY WORDS For our opening word we have chosen the first verse of the study "He saw a man, * * sitting at the receipt of custom: and He saith unto him, Follo...
New — Fermenting wine will soon burst those bottles, the leather of which is almost worn out. The word properly means vessels made of goats' skins, wherein they formerly put wine, (and do in some coun...