Luke 5:37

5:37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. ¹  If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

Luke 17:27

17:27 People ²  were eating, ³  they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then ⁴  the flood came and destroyed them all. ⁵ 

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¹ sn Wineskins were bags made of skin or leather, used for storing wine in NT times. As the new wine fermented and expanded, it would stretch the new wineskins. Putting new (unfermented) wine in old wineskins, which had already been stretched, would result in the bursting of the wineskins.

² tn Grk “They.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

³ tn These verbs (“eating… drinking… marrying… being given in marriage”) are all progressive imperfects, describing action in progress at that time.

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁵ sn Like that flood came and destroyed them all, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.