a piece of new cloth] Or, raw, or, unwrought cloth. Some interpret the two following similitudes, thus. As new cloth is not sit to patch upon an old suit, nor new wine to be put in old bottles, because of the inconveniences coming to both, mentioned in the text: so it was not fit for me to teach this doctrine of the Gospel newly revealed, to you and the Pharisees, who stand too much upon old traditions. Others thus (and better,) As old cloth cannot long endure a new patch, nor old vessels new wine, because of their weaknesse: so my disciples cannot yet submit themselves to this austere discipline, till I be ascended into heaven, and send down the gifts of my spirit in a more plentifull measure upon them.