Luke 5:33-39

The Question of Fasting (Mark 2:18 *, Matthew 9:14 *). Lk.'s interest in prayer is again (cf. Luke 5:16) seen in Luke 5:33, with which cf. Luke 11:1. The recasting of the saying about the patch (Luke 5:36) reflects a later age; Christianity was now a made-up garment, when Jesus spoke it was only in the piece.

Luke 5:39. Lk. only. If it was spoken on this occasion it means that John's disciples may rightly continue their own practices. It was not unbelief that kept them from the new wine of the Gospel. They did not set the one against the other (good not better is the true reading); but in the revival and repentance due to John's preaching they had found the old order good (as indeed it was), and they craved nothing more (Hort, Judaistic Christianity, 24). But perhaps it is simply put here by Lk. because it has to do with wine, just as Mark 9:49 f. collects sayings about salt.