Lucas 5:37

37 »Nadie pone vino nuevo en cueros viejos; pues el vino nuevo reventaría los cueros, el vino se derramaría, y los cueros quedarían arruinados.

Lucas 5:37 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 5:37

And no man putteth new wine into old bottles
To which the Scribes and Pharisees are here compared, into whose hearts the new wine of Gospel grace was not put; or to whom was not made known the love of God Comparable to new wine; nor the blessings of the new covenant of grace, now exhibited; nor the truths of the Gospel now more clearly and newly revealed.

Else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled;
they not being able to receive and bear these things, no, not the relation of them: these were hard sayings to them, of which they said, who can hear them? they could not hear them with patience, much less receive them in the love of them; but were at once filled with wrath and indignation, and rejected them.

And the bottles shall perish;
their condemnation shall be the greater.

Lucas 5:37 In-Context

35 pero un día el novio será llevado, y entonces sí ayunarán.

36 Luego Jesús les dio la siguiente ilustración:

37 »Nadie pone vino nuevo en cueros viejos; pues el vino nuevo reventaría los cueros, el vino se derramaría, y los cueros quedarían arruinados.

38 El vino nuevo debe guardarse en cueros nuevos.

39 Ni nadie que prueba el vino añejo parece querer el vino nuevo. Pues dicen: “El añejo es mejor”».