"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth, because the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.

"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. If he does, the patch pulls away from it the new from the old and a worse tear is made.

As for the dead being raised, haven't you read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

So Jesus got into one of the boats (the one that belonged to Simon) and asked him to push out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and began to teach the crowds from the boat.

When he had finished speaking, he told Simon, "Push out into deep water, and lower your nets for a catch."

because every tree is known by its own fruit. People don't gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush.

Even Moses demonstrated in the story about the bush that the dead are raised, when he calls the Lord, "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

"After 40 years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached the bush to look at it, the voice of the Lord said,

"This same Moses whom they rejected by saying, "Who made you ruler and judge?' was the man whom God sent to be both their ruler and deliverer with the help of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

Your boasting is not good. You know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough, don't you?

Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are to be free from yeast. For the Messiah, our Passover, has been sacrificed.

A little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough.