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Luke 5:39 in multiple translations:


“And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’” (Luke 5:39 ESV)


“And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’” (Luke 5:39 NIV)


“And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, ‘The old is good enough.’” (Luke 5:39 NASB)


“No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better. (Luke 5:39 KJV)


“And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’” (Luke 5:39 NKJV)


“No one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, ‘The old is good enough.’” (Luke 5:39 NET)


- Jonathan J.

2009
08/18
POSTED BY
Jonathan
CATEGORY
Bible
Theology
11 comments

  1. fasting is like the thread that binds us to God and draws us closer to him. Jesus is inferring that He is the new and the old..bind yourself to Him

    • Andy
    • August 18th, 2009

    Respect your elders. They taste like wine.

    j/k!

    • Dark Lord Imhotep
    • August 18th, 2009

    Sorry. i didn't mean to hit submit on that. Reading that on this page, it makes me think about how God is not just older than us, but He is outside of time. So does it stand to reason that He will know more about what is best for us, due to His not being "new wine".

    • I certainly agree that God knows what is best for us. I don't think, though, that this verse is particularly articulating that idea. This verse is actually in the middle of the context of the new covenant. Here's Matthew Henry's Commentary on it:

      He would not put new cloth upon an old garment (v. 36), nor new wine into old bottles (v. 37, 38); he would not, as soon as ever he had called them out of the world, put them upon the strictnesses and austerities of discipleship, lest they should be tempted to fly off. When God brought Israel out of Egypt, he would not bring them by the way of the Philistines, lest they should repent, when they saw war, and return to Egypt, Exod. xiii. 17. So Christ would train up his followers gradually to the discipline of his family; for no man, having drank old wine, will of a sudden, straightway, desire new, or relish it, but will say, The old is better, because he has been used to it, v. 39. The disciples will be tempted to think their old way of living better, till they are by degrees trained up to this way whereunto they are called. Or, turn it the other way: "Let them be accustomed awhile to religious exercises, and then they will abound in them as much as you do: but we must not be too hasty with them." Calvin takes it as an admonition to the Pharisees not to boast of their fasting, and the noise and show they made with it, nor to despise his disciples because they did not in like manner signalize themselves; for the profession the Pharisees made was indeed pompous and gay, like new wine that is brisk and sparkling, whereas all wise men say, The old is better; for, though it does not give its colour so well in the cup, yet it is more warming in the stomach and more wholesome. Christ's disciples, though they had not so much of the form of godliness, had more of the power of it.

      I think I agree with this commentary. It's much about the new covenant and the family lineage of ancient Israel in regards to the covenant people.

  4. the older the brew the better

  5. I am a pres, that believes in dunking lol

  6. So which is it, is the old "better" or "good enough"?

    • My hopes is in the "Translate This" posts, the readers discuss.

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