I thought that up to the Pentecost people where
still under the old covenant and can not be born again or be regenerate, because they were still under the law.
Whatever may have been the origin of this story, its meaning for his followers is clear: their Lord was God's elect and beloved Son, the fulfillment of his
promises under the old covenant.
If women — and «foreign» women at that — could be, for their generations, the new Abraham and the new
Moses under the old covenant, what possible barriers of gender, nationality, race or class can stand under the covenant of grace in Jesus Christ?
Third, you would realize the other verse (Matthew 20) you reference has nothing to do with landowners or workers, but is a parable to describe how man recieves the same salvation whether he toiled for a long
time under the old covenant or was saved when Jesus came.
Mark that is
under the old covenant, but through Christ we have Jesus's covenant on the cross.
Under the old covenant, wine is a blessing (Deut 7:13; 11:14) and the absence of wine a curse (28:39, 51).
He is
under the old covenant, not the new.