Luke 5:33-39

The Voice

Pharisees: ³³ Explain to us why You and Your disciples are so commonly found partying like this, when our disciples—and even the disciples of John—are known for fasting rather than feasting, and for saying prayers rather than drinking wine.

Jesus: ³⁴ Imagine there’s a wedding going on. Is that the time to tell the guests to ignore the bridegroom and fast? ³⁵ Sure, there’s a time for fasting—when the bridegroom has been taken away. ³⁶ Look, nobody tears up a new garment to make a patch for an old garment. If he did, the new patch would shrink and rip the old, and the old garment would be worse off than before. ³⁷ And nobody takes freshly squeezed juice and puts it into old, stiff wineskins. If he did, the fresh wine would make the old skins burst open, and both the wine and the wineskins would be ruined. ³⁸ New demands new—new wine for new wineskins. ³⁹ Anyway, those who’ve never tasted the new wine won’t know what they’re missing; they’ll always say, “The old wine is good enough for me!”