Discovery BoxLuke 5:36 
Context5:36 He also told them a parable: 1 “No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews 2 it on an old garment. If he does, he will have torn 3 the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 4
Luke 6:49
Context6:49 But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice 5 is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When 6 the river burst against that house, 7 it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!” 8
1 sn The term parable in a Semitic context can cover anything from a long story to a brief wisdom saying. Here it is the latter.
2 tn Grk “puts”; but since the means of attachment would normally be sewing, the translation “sews” has been used.
3 tn Grk “he tears.” The point is that the new garment will be ruined to repair an older, less valuable one.
4 sn The piece from the new will not match the old. The imagery in this saying looks at the fact that what Jesus brings is so new that it cannot simply be combined with the old. To do so would be to destroy what is new and to put together something that does not fit.
5 tn Grk “does not do [them].”
6 tn Grk “against which”; because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the relative clause was converted to a temporal clause in the translation and a new sentence started here.
7 tn Grk “it”; the referent (that house) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Grk “and its crash was great.”
sn The extra phrase at the end of this description (and was utterly destroyed) portrays the great disappointment that the destruction of the house caused as it crashed and was swept away.
