will have disastrous consequences. The final clause no, they pour new wine into new wineskins is not an instruction for wine-makers, who do not need to be told the obvious, but a succinct statement challenging those who have understood the previous analogies to think through the implications of Jesus’ presence and proclamation. The new patch and the new wine represent Jesus’ preaching of the good news of the coming of the kingdom of God, which is thus characterized as a new era of salvation that