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6. Later, in Matthew, the use of the OT is carried further and becomes proof from scripture. Although Matthew, too, finds his OT evidences by recourse to the OT, seeking sayings there that can be understood as predictions, the OT is not used by him (at least not primarily or exclusively) in the service of a christological or eschatological assertion, but has itself now become the text. This text, however, is now interpreted by the NT occurrence. Hence the importance of exact correspondences. The OT passages are not understood on the basis of the NT, but conversely – -- and so occasionally Matthew's source is corrected according to the OT saying, most clearly, perhaps, in 4:13: Jesus does not appear in Galilee (as in the Markan parallel) but (following Isa. 9:1 f.) the site is expanded to Zebulun and Naphtali.

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