“And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.”
He told them this parable: no one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old — the patch parable addresses the incompatibility of the new and the old. Tearing the new garment to patch the old both ruins the new garment and still doesn't work — the patches won't match. The kingdom that Jesus brings is new wine that cannot be contained in old forms.
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