“... The second half of CGT 47 contains the same two metaphors, but in reverse order, that is, moving from the metaphor of wine to the metaphor of the patch. The wording is as follows: No one drinks old wine and immediately desires to drink new wine; and they do not pour [literally, “throw”] new wine into old wineskins, lest they burst. And they do not pour old wine into a new wineskin lest it destroy it. They do not sew an old patch on a new garment, since there will be a tear. Two points strike one immediately: (1) Luke’s statement about not desiring new wine after drinking the older, preferable wine is most likely his own redactional addition. It does not fit the rest of the metaphor about new wine and old wineskins, but it does fit the whole problematic about the relation of the old and the new in salvation history that Luke first sounds in his Gospel and then works out in the early history of the church in the Acts of the Apostles. Not surprisingly, the new material is simply tacked on to the end of the pericope, the common place for adding new and somewhat extraneous material to a traditional unit. Since everything else in these verses is material of the triple tradition (i.e., coming from Mark), any attempt to invent a special L tradition simply for this last sentence looks forced, if not desperate. What would be its theological meaning as an isolated logion in the L tradition? And by what strange coincidence do both Luke and Thomas locate the isolated logion in the same unit: the combined metaphors of wine and patch? Once one grants that the final sentence in Luke 5:36–39 is a Lucan creation, its presence in Thomas inevitably leads to the conclusion that Thomas knew at least the Lucan form of the pericope. As we have seen already and shall see again later, this is not the only time in the CGT that the author/compiler shows a preference for Luke within the triple tradition. (2) Once we conclude that Thomas is working with the Lucan form of the double metaphors, we see that his procedure of taking up the metaphors in reverse order is thoroughgoing and complete: first the saying about preferring the old wine, next the saying about not pouring new wine into old wineskins, and finally the saying about the patch. ...”