What is the context?
The people hear that every wineskin will be filled and answer as if it is an obvious observation. The Lord then turns the saying into a warning.
The drunkenness will include kings, priests, prophets, and the residents of Jerusalem. Their confident social order is pictured as losing control.
The smashing of fathers and sons together describes destructive judgment rather than festive abundance. The everyday object has become an image of the society’s coming ruin.
The scene does not command intoxication or authorize a reader to carry out violence against a family.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley understands this as a wine of confusion and astonishment rather than the promise of a pleasant banquet. His reading follows the Lord’s explanation that the apparently familiar saying carries a very different outcome.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
No deeper study linked yet.