And see, your relative Elizabeth--she also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

who shall not certainly receive many times as much in this life, and in the age that is coming the Life of the Ages."

He also spoke in figurative language to them. "No one," He said, "tears a piece from a new garment to mend an old one. Otherwise he would not only spoil the new, but the patch from the new would not match the old.

Nor does any one after drinking old wine wish for new; for he says, 'The old is better.'"