What saith the Scripture Tradition must give way to the clear statements of the Scripture

  And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw God’s Spirit descending like a dove and alighting on him. Mt. 3:16 Matthew might have opened his gospel as he did in order to draw a parallel between one beginning and another beginning, between the creation of the cosmos and Adam and Eve on the one hand and the new creation brought by the Messiah on the other. This proposal gains support from a third consideration, namely, that elsewhere the NT sees the coming of Jesus as the counterpart of the creation account narrated in Genesis. Paul, for instance, speaks more than once of a ‘new creation’ (2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 6:15), and he likens his Lord to a ‘last Adam’ (Rom. 5:12–21; 1 Cor 15:42–50).  We are, accordingly, encouraged to conclude that the Spirit as dove originally meant—and meant also for Matthew—that the events of Gen 1 were being recapitulated or repeated in the Messiah’s life:  the eschatologica...

One could say that the wine is still waiting for an interpretation, since none is contained in the Old Testament. (In fact, the wine itself is not prescribed in the Old Testament.)  I tell you; I won’t drink wine again until that day when I drink it in a new way with you in my Father’s kingdom.” Mt 26:29 (Common English Bible, 2011.)  But I tell you, from this moment I will not drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it in a new way   in My Father’s kingdom  with you.” ( Holman Christian Standard Version 2009)  And I am saying to you, I will positively not from now on drink of this product of the vine until that day when I drink it new in quality with you in the kingdom of my Father.(Kenneth S. Wuest, The New Testament: An Expanded Translation 1961)  the “new” wine of the kingdom, Matt. 26:29; Mark 14:25, is kainos, since it will be of a different character from that of this world.(Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old ...