No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.
Founder of Christianity
From a parable about new teachings and old traditions (Matthew 9:16)
c. 30-33 CE
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"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you."
Controversial"Indeed, there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. …"
Shocking"For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household."
Shocking"So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple."
Controversial"Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man."
Controversial