21 No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Mark 2:21

Commentary on Mark 2:18-22

(Read Mark 2:18-22)

Strict professors are apt to blame all that do not fully come up to their own views. Christ did not escape slanders; we should be willing to bear them, as well as careful not to deserve them; but should attend to every part of our duty in its proper order and season.