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16 No one patches an old cloak with a piece of unshrunken cloth,[a] for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the tear gets worse.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:16–17 Each of these parables speaks of the unsuitability of attempting to combine the old and the new. Jesus’ teaching is not a patching up of Judaism, nor can the gospel be contained within the limits of Mosaic law.

16 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.

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