No one sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old coat, for the patch breaks away from it, and the tear is made worse:

Is this not the son of the joiner? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

But whoever is a hindrance to one of these little ones who believe in me, better for him to have a great mill-stone hung round his neck and be sunk in the deep sea.

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you are like tombs white-washed; they look comely on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all manner of impurity.

No one stitches a piece of undressed cloth on an old coat, otherwise the patch breaks away, the new from the old, and the tear is made worse:

Is this not the joiner, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not his sisters settled here among us?" So they were repelled by him.

and his clothes glistened white, vivid white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.

In Joppa Peter stayed for some time, at the house of Simon a tanner.

You must send to Joppa and summon Simon who is surnamed Peter; he is staying in the house of Simon a tanner beside the sea.'

and as he belonged to the same trade he stayed with them and they all worked together. (They were workers in leather by trade.)

So he got them together, along with the workmen who belonged to similar trades, and said to them: "My men, you know this trade is the source of our wealth.

At this Paul said to him, "You whitewashed wall, God will strike you! You sit there to judge me by the Law, do you? And you break the Law by ordering me to be struck!"

Eat any food that has been sold in the market, instead of letting scruples of conscience oblige you to ask any questions about it;

Alexander the blacksmith has done me a lot of harm: the Lord will pay him back for what he has done (beware of him),