Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Luke 5:37,38
Bottles shall perish.— Some render it, Skins will be lost.
Bottles shall perish.— Some render it, Skins will be lost.
Verse Luke 5:37. _THE NEW WINE WILL BURST THE BOTTLES_] These old bottles would not be able to stand the fermentation of the new wine, as the old sewing would be apt to give way. It is scarcely necess...
See this passage illustrated in the notes at Matthew 9:14. Luke 5:39 HAVING DRUNK OLD WINE ... - Wine increases its strength and flavor, and its mildness and mellowness, by age, and the old is theref...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Miraculous Drought of Fishes. (Luke 5:1)_ 2. The Leper Healed. (Luke 5:12) 3. The Paralytic Healed. (Luke 5:17) 4. The Call of Matthew and the Feast ...
THE QUESTION OF FASTING (Mark 2:18 *, Matthew 9:14 *). Lk.'s interest in prayer is again (_cf._ Luke 5:16) seen in Luke 5:33, with which cf....
He spoke a parable to them like this: "Nobody puts a patch from a new garment on an old garment. If he does the new will tear it and the patch from the new will not match the old. No one puts new wine...
THE CONDITIONS OF A MIRACLE (Luke 5:1-11)...
NEW. fresh made. Greek. _neos._ Seenote on Matthew 9:17. BOTTLES. wine-skins. BE SPILLED. it will be poured out....
_new wine into old bottles_ Rather, WINE-SKINS. The skins used for holding wine were apt to get seamed and cracked, and old wineskins would tend to set up the process of fermentation. They could conta...
The Call and Feast of Levi. On Fasting. The New and the Old 27. _and saw_ Rather, HE OBSERVED. _named Levi_ It may be regarded as certain that Levi is the same person as the Evangelist St Matthew. Th...
ἈΣΚΟΎΣ. ‘Wine-skins.’ Our Lord often illustrates two aspects of the same truth by a _pair_ of parables (e.g. the Hid Treasure and the Pearl; the Sower and the Tares, &c.). The skins used for holding w...
EXCURSUS III ON PUTTING NEW (νέον) WINE INTO FRESH (καινοὺς) BOTTLES It is usually considered a sufficient explanation of this passage to say that the ‘bottles’ of the ancients were skins, and not b...
THE CALL AND FEAST OF LEVI. ON FASTING. THE NEW AND THE OLD...
Ver 33. And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but you eat and drink? 34. And he said to them, Can you make the c...
ΡΉΞΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΡΉΓΝΥΜΙ рваться, лопаться (ВВС), ΈΚΧΥΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΈΚΧΈΩ (G1632) выливаться, ΆΠΟΛΟΎΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. от_ ΆΠΌΛΛΥΜΙ (G622) уничтожать, терять....
DISCOURSE: 1492 THE NEW WINE AND OLD BOTTLES Luke 5:36. And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Complaint About Fasting Scripture_ Luke 5:33-39 And they said unto him, The disciples of John fact often, and make supplications; likewise also the _disciples_ of the Pharis...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Converting Men (Luke 5:27-39) 27 After this he went out, and saw a tax collector, named Levi, sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, Follow me. 28And he left eve...
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. AND NO MAN PUTTETH NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES, [ askous (G779)]...
21-28 Compare Mat_9:9; Mar_2:13-14. 21 Human wisdom and expedience would have urged our Lord to choose for His apostles men of the highest character and reputation. Instead, He chooses those that were...
5:37 new (b-5) 'New' is _ kainos_ , when used here of 'garment,' _ neos_ of 'wine.' see Note, Hebrews 12:24 ....
MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES. THE PALSIED MAN 1-11. First miraculous draught of fishes (peculiar to Lk). Many critics identify this incident with that recorded in Matthew 4:18 and Mark 1:16. But there...
CALL OF LEVI, AND THE CONTROVERSY AS TO FASTING (Matthew 9:9; Mark 2:13). See on Mt....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS CALLS THE FIRST *DISCIPLES 5:1-11 V1 The people crowded round Jesus because they were so eager to hear God’s message. He was standing by the...
ELSE. — Better, as before, _if otherwise._ THE BOTTLES SHALL PERISH. — Better, _will_ perish, there being no reason for any difference between the two verbs....
(33-39) WHY DO THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN FAST? — See Notes on Matthew 9:14; Mark 2:18. St. Luke is less definite than the other two in stating who the questioners were. It is only from St. Mark that we le...
The tradition of the second _logion_ seems to have come down to Lk.'s time without variation; at all events he gives it substantially as in parallels. The difficulty connected with this parabolic word...
_Relative parabolic Logia_. ἔλεγε … ὅτι : an editorial introduction to the parabolic sayings. The first of these, as given by Lk., varies in form from the version in the parallels, suggests somewhat d...
_Fasting_ (Matthew 9:14-17; Mark 2:18-22)....
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. “When saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee?” Matthew...
Four of Jesus' disciples, already called into the relation of discipleship, are here called more definitely to service. Taking command of their vessel, to which in all probability they had returned wi...
CHAPTER 29 MATTHEW'S BEAST Matthew 10:1-17; Mark 2:15-22; Luke 5:29-39. Luke “And Levi made a great feast for Him in his own house; and there was a great multitude of publicans and others who were si...
VERS. 37, 38. _The Second Parable._ The figure is taken from the Oriental custom of preserving liquids in leathern bottles, made generally of goat-skins. “No one,” says M. Pierotti, “travels in Palest...
4. _The Call of Levi: Luke 5:27-39_. This section relates: 1 _st._ The call of Levi; 2 _d._ The feast which followed, with the discourse connected with it; 3 _d._ A double lesson arising out of a que...
3 _d. Luke 5:33-39_. _Instruction concerning Fasting._...
Here we have the second part of the conversation. The expression ἔλεγε δὲ καί, _and He said also_, indicates its range. This expression, which occurs so frequently in Luke, always indicates the point...
In Luke they are the same parties, particularly the scribes, who continue the conversation, and who allege, in favour of the regular practice of fasting, the example of the disciples of John and of th...
(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) And he left all, rose up, and followed him. (29) And...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
Man, He was come for men. He will associate others (chapter 5) with Himself in this glorious work. He has a right to do it. If He is in grace a servant, He is so according to the full power of the Hol...
AND NO MAN PUTTETH NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES,.... To which the Scribes and Pharisees are here compared, into whose hearts the new wine of Gospel grace was not put; or to whom was not made known the lo...
The contents of these verses occur Matthew 9:14, where they are explained at large. _The disciples of John fast and make prayers_ Long and solemn prayers: _but thine eat and drink_ Freely, though thou...
AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM; in Matthew 9:14, this question is put by the disciples of John; in Mark 2:18, by the disciples of John and of the Pharisees. Jesus gives a general answer to both. For the meani...
Proverbial sayings:...
AND NO MAN PUTTETH NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES; ELSE THE NEW WINE WILL BURST THE BOTTLES AND BE SPILLED, AND THE BOTTLES SHALL PERISH....
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 pressed upon the Lord Jesus, not to see miracles, but t...
27-39 It was a wonder of Christ's grace, that he would call a publican to be his disciple and follower. It was a wonder of his grace, that the call was made so effectual. It was a wonder of his grace...
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Luke 5:37 And G2532 one G3762 puts G906 (G5719) new G3501 wine G3631 into G1519 old G3820 wineskins
“And no man puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be spilled, and the skins will perish.” The point is emphasised again using the idea of puttin...
Luke 5:29-39. LEVI'S FEAST, etc. This occurred at a later date. See on Matthew 9:10-17; MARK 2:15-22....
CHRONOLOGY. The occurrences mentioned in this section are detailed by Matthew and Mark. The latter (Luke 1:40 to Luke 2:22) places them in the same order, but Matthew inserts the healing of the leper...
BOTTLES That is, wineskins....
CONTENTS: Miraculous draught of fishes. Healing of a leper and a paralytic. Call of Matthew. The scribes and Pharisees answered. Parables of the garment and bottles. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Simon, Ja...
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 extant, St. Luke does not repeat the parables in this...
AND SAW A TAX COLLECTOR NAMED LEVI. We know this man better as Matthew. See notes on Matthew 9:9-17. All the "inner circle" of disciples had been disciples of John the Baptist, who then left him to fo...
_No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old_ THE PATCHED GARMENT We appreciate easily the offensiveness of what is incongruous. It is fatal alike to beauty, to symmetry, and to effectivenes...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 5:36 A NEW patch cannot be put on an OLD GARMENT. It will shrink when it is washed, and then tear. Also, one does not put NEW WINE INTO OLD WINESKINS. New, fermenting w
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 5 VER. 6. _They inclosed a great multitude of fishes_ for Peter had said, "At Thy word I will let down the net." "Behold here the fruit and reward of obedience. Jesus did this 1. In order that...
_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 with disciples of the Pharisees in putting this quest...
EXPOSITION When St. Luke compiled his Gospel, many of the circumstances connected with the early relations of the leaders of Christianity with their Founder were so well known, and had been so often r...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Luke's gospel chapter 5. The popularity of the ministry of Jesus is growing. Word is being spread around of the miracles that are being wrought by Him, and now where...
Joshua 9:13; Joshua 9:4; Psalms 119:83...