22And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
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Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
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 these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-28)Christ had been put to justify himself in conversing with publicans and sinners : here he is put to justify his disciples; and in what they do according to his will he will justify them, and bear them out. I. He justifies them in their not fasting , which was turned to their reproach by the Pharisees. Why do the Pharisees and the disciples of John fast? They used to fast , the Pharisees fasted twi…
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