Luke 5:36 meaning and explanation
He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will tear the new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
Luke 5:36, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Jesus is answering guests of Levi's banquet who wonder why His disciples do not fast like John's followers and the Pharisees. His short parable pictures mending: tearing cloth from a new garment to patch an old one ruins the new cloak and looks wrong on the old.
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