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

  Mark 1:15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news. The ability to acknowledge one’s entanglement in evil is part of the experience of kingdom.(For this reason Jesus’ ministry is among the outcast; or see the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican or the use of leaven in the parable of the Leaven, a sign of moral corruption) Like Paul’s argument in Romans that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23), kingdom makes no distinctions, all are sinners—all are called, but only on the condition of the recognition that they are sinners. In synoptic language, the parable leads the reader to the point where the only option left is repentance. Matthew 18:23–34 (Bernard Brandon Scott, “The King’s Accounting: Matthew 18:23–34,” Journal of Biblical Literature 104 (1985): 442.) 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 Sp

 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)  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.) Revelation pictures the messianic consummation in terms of a wedding (Rev. 19:9). In our Gospel, the wedding at Cana symbolizes the presence of the messianic salvation; wine symbolizes the joy of the messianic feast (see