Luke 5:33-39

New Century Version

Jesus Answers a Question

³³ They said to Jesus, “John’s followers often fast^[a] for a certain time and pray, just as the Pharisees do. But your followers eat and drink all the time.”

³⁴ Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is still with them. ³⁵ But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.”

³⁶ Jesus told them this story: “No one takes cloth off a new coat to cover a hole in an old coat. Otherwise, he ruins the new coat, and the cloth from the new coat will not be the same as the old cloth. ³⁷ Also, no one ever pours new wine into old leather bags. Otherwise, the new wine will break the bags, the wine will spill out, and the leather bags will be ruined. ³⁸ New wine must be put into new leather bags. ³⁹ No one after drinking old wine wants new wine, because he says, ‘The old wine is better.’”