He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
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Luke 5:36 in context
Luke 5:33–39
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They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”
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He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
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But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”
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He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
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No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed.
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But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.
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No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”
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