Luk 5:36-39 | RWP | e4.org | Also a parable ( κα παραβολην ). There are three parables here in the answer of Jesus (the bridegroom, the patch on the garment, the wineskin). They are not called parables save here, but they are parables and Luke's language means that. Rendeth ( σχισας ). This in Luke alone. Common verb. Used of splitting rocks ( ). Our word schism comes from it. Putteth it ( επιβαλλε ). So when has επιραπτε (sews on). The word for "piece" or "patch" ( επιβλημα ) in all the three Gospels is from the verb επιβαλλω , to clap on, and is in Plutarch, Arrian, LXX, though the verb is as old as Homer. See on Matthew and Mark for distinction between καινος (fresh), νεος (new), and παλαιος (old). He will rend the new ( κα το καινον σχισε ). Future active indicative. So the best MSS. Will not agree ( ου συμφωνησε ). Future active indicative. So the best manuscripts again. With the old ( τω παλαιω ). Associative instrumental case. Instead of this phrase in Luke, ; have "a worse rent" ( χειρον σχισμα ).

‏ Luke 5:36-39

Also a parable ( κα παραβολην ). There are three parables here in the answer of Jesus (the bridegroom, the patch on the garment, the wineskin). They are not called parables save here, but they are parables and Luke's language means that.

Rendeth ( σχισας ). This in Luke alone. Common verb. Used of splitting rocks (Mt 27:51). Our word schism comes from it.

Putteth it ( επιβαλλε ). So Mt 9:16 when Mr 2:21 has επιραπτε (sews on). The word for "piece" or "patch" ( επιβλημα ) in all the three Gospels is from the verb επιβαλλω, to clap on, and is in Plutarch, Arrian, LXX, though the verb is as old as Homer. See on Matthew and Mark for distinction between καινος (fresh), νεος (new), and παλαιος (old).

He will rend the new ( κα το καινον σχισε ). Future active indicative. So the best MSS.

Will not agree ( ου συμφωνησε ). Future active indicative. So the best manuscripts again.

With the old ( τω παλαιω ). Associative instrumental case. Instead of this phrase in Luke, Mr 2:21; Mt 9:16 have "a worse rent" ( χειρον σχισμα ).

Must be put ( βλητεον ). This verbal adjective in -τεος rather than -τος appears here alone in the N.T. though it is common enough in Attic Greek. It is a survival of the literary style. This is the impersonal use and is transitive in sense here and governs the accusative "new wine" ( οινον νεον ), though the agent is not expressed (Robertson, Grammar, p. 1097).

The old is good ( Hο παλαιος χρηστος εστιν ). So the best MSS. rather that χρηστοτερος, comparative (better). Westcott and Hort wrongly bracket the whole verse, though occurring in Aleph, B C L and most of the old documents. It is absent in D and some of the old Latin MSS. It is the philosophy of the obscurantist, that is here pictured by Christ. "The prejudiced person will not even try the new, or admit that it has any merits. He knows that the old is pleasant, and suits him; and that is enough; he is not going to change" (Plummer). This is Christ's picture of the reactionary Pharisees.