Luke 5:36

Then Jesus also spoke a parable to them. “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to mend an old garment. If he did that, he would tear the new garment, and the piece of cloth from the new garment would not fit with the cloth of the old garment.

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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.

In Context

35But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, then in those days they will fast.”

37No one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does that, the new wine would burst the skins, and the wine would be spilled, and the wineskins would be destroyed.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:19You must keep my commands. Do not try to breed your animals with different kinds of other animals. Do not mix two different kinds of seeds when planting your field. Do not wear clothing made of two kinds of material mixed together.

Matthew 9:16No man puts a piece of new cloth on an old garment, for the patch will tear away from the garment, and a worse tear will be made.

2 Corinthians 6:16And what agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: 1 “I will dwell among them and walk among them. 1 I will be their God, 1 and they will be my people.”

Matthew Henry on Luke 5:28-39

The Call of Matthew; Watchfulness Inculcated. 27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. 28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. 30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31 And Jesus answering… Read the whole commentary →

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