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A new cloth patch is stitched onto an old, worn garment.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible. Illustration of Jesus’s teaching comparison, rather than a new narrated event.

Mark 2:21

New Cloth and an Old Garment

Authority to Forgive · Mark 2

Story guide: Jesus’s garment comparison shows a new patch pulling away and worsening the tear in worn cloth.

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21No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth onto an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it—the new from the old—and a worse tear results.

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