17Neither 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.
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They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-17)The objections which were made against Christ and his disciples gave occasion to some of the most profitable of his discourses; thus are the interests of truth often served, even by the opposition it meets with from gainsayers, and thus the wisdom of Christ brings good out of evil. This is the third instance of it in this chapter; his discourse of his power to forgive sin, and his readiness to rec…
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