MARK 2:21 THE NEW CLOTH BEING SOWN ONTO OLD CLOTH.

 BESIDES WHO WOULD PATCH OLD CLOTHING WITH NEW CLOTH?  for the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth, leaving an even larger tear than before.'

Context and spatial setting:   We do not know what time this was, as these examples Jesus give are not set at any one place.  All we know is that 'once' when the Pharisees were fasting, the disciples were not and 'someone' came and asked Jesus why this was so.  His first reason is that He is the bridegroom so his disciples should be feasting - perhaps not literally but on his teachings.

This is fairly easy to understand.  The second example of why the disciples are not fasting, or standing by Jewish law and custom, demands a little more thought - is more obscure, perhaps to make his words less provocative at this moment.  If He had said 'The Old and the New Covenant cannot be mixed, you have to separate from the Old Covenant in order to receive the grace of this New Covenant, this new way of being - this would possibly have led to an earlier end to His ministry.   Couching this revolutionary break with Moses' Law in such simply and homely terms it seems very inoffensive, makes the imagination work, and is easy to visualize.

Thus the context of the place and time are vague which allows for all the emphasis and attention and imagination to be placed on the teaching of Jesus.  The imaginery and symbolic clothing is easy to visualize without the interference of, say, a specific place.