9:16 No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, because the patch will pull away from the garment and the tear will be worse.
Matthew 27:64
27:64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body 1 and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
Matthew 12:45
12:45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so 2 the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”
1 tnGrk “him.”
1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the concluding point of the story.