No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.