Jesus' teaching is like fermenting wine that seems to almost have inherent vigor and can not be contained within an old rigid system. Jesus' mission involved a radical break with common religious practices for what he brings is not a patch but a whole new garment. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. ( Luke 5:36-39) He told them this parable: 'No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one.
