Matthew 9:15-17
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
15 And Jesus said to them, “The sons of the wedding-hall[a] cannot be mourning as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But days will come when the bridegroom is taken-away from them, and then they will fast. 16 And no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the fullness of it takes[b] from the garment and a worse tear takes place. 17 Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise indeed the wineskins are burst, and the wine spills out and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into fresh[c] wineskins, and both are preserved”.
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- Matthew 9:15 That is, the groomsmen, the attendants of the groom, representing the disciples.
- Matthew 9:16 During washing, the new patch ‘takes’ from the old garment, tearing it. Jesus is not a patch repairing the Jewish system. He is a new garment, so His disciples behave in a new way.
- Matthew 9:17 Jesus, the new and fresh, cannot be contained within the old worn out Jewish system of that day.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing
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