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Atomic Bible
Mark 2:21
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.
from The Patches and the Wineskins, Mark 2:21-22
What it says

Jesus says a new cloth patch on an old garment will pull away and make the tear worse.

What it is doing

Old fabric cannot hold a new patch.

In context

21No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result. 22And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”