The Patches and the Wineskins

Jesus says that a new patch tears an old garment and a new wineskin bursts if filled with new wine, so new wine must go into new wineskins, though some will still prefer the old wine.

H³⁶e also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will tear the new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match the old. ³⁷And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. ³⁸Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins. ³⁹And no one after drinking old wine wants new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”