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New Wine into Old Wineskins

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of a pair of parables told by jesus in the new testament”. Today it says “parable of jesus”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Porter with a Wineskin , by Niko Pirosmani (before 1919)”. It now reads “Parable taught by Jesus of Nazareth according to Christian gospels Porter with a Wineskin , by Niko Pirosmani (before 1919)”.
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The opening as it read in 2010

Man with Wineskin by Niko Pirosmani .1 New Wine into Old Wineskins is one of a pair of parables told by Jesus in the New Testament , found in Matthew Matthew 9:14–17 , Mark Mark 2:18–22 , and Luke Luke 5:33–39 .2 A version of the parables also appears in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas (Saying 47). Gospel of Thomas : Lamb translation and Patterson/Meyer translation .3

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of a pair of parables told by jesus in the new testament”. Today it says “parable of jesus”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Porter with a Wineskin , by Niko Pirosmani (before 1919)”. It now reads “Parable taught by Jesus of Nazareth according to Christian gospels Porter with a Wineskin , by Niko Pirosmani (before 1919)”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

one of a pair of parables told by jesus in the new testament

Now

parable of jesus

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