Mark 2:21 - Exposition

No man seweth a piece of new cloth —the Greek is ( ῥακους ἀγνάφου ) undressed cloth, cloth newly woven, and before it has been dressed by the fuller— on an old garment . The latter part of this verse is better rendered, as in the Revised Version, thus: Else that which should fill it up taketh from it, the new from the old; and a worse rent is made. The meaning of the words is this: An old garment, if it be torn, should be mended by a patch of old material; for if a patch of new material is used, its strength or fullness takes away from the old garment to which it is sewn; the old and the new do not agree, the new drags the old and tears it, and so a worse rent is made.