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An old garment and new cloth illustrate Jesus’s comparison.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible. Illustration of Jesus’s comparison

Matthew 9:16

The Patch and the Garment

Mercy, Healing, and the Call · Matthew 9

Story guide: Jesus explains how an unshrunk patch can tear away from an old garment.

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16No one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, making the tear worse.

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