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Matthew 9:16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Matthew 9:16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
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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- 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.
New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
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