Lu 5:36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was [taken] out of the new agreeth not with the old.
cross - rent; as curtain, the sea, etc.
obsurdity identifies riddle - you do not cut up a new garment to fix an old one
theme - mixing
garment - works