16 But no one puts a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old garment, for its patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear becomes worse. 17 Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise[a] the wineskins burst and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are destroyed. But they put new wine into new wineskins and both are preserved.”

A Woman Healed and a Daughter Raised

18 As[b] he was saying these things to them, behold, one of the rulers came and[c] knelt down before him, saying, “My daughter has just now died, but come, place your hand on her and she will live!”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 9:17 Literally “but if not”
  2. Matthew 9:18 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was saying”)
  3. Matthew 9:18 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came”) has been translated as a finite verb