The Grapevine

Illustration of The Grapevine

The vine is one of Scripture's richest images. Israel was planted as God's vineyard, expected to bear the fruit of righteousness. Jesus took up the image and declared, 'I am the true vine,' calling his followers to abide in him as branches that bear fruit only by staying connected to him. Wine from the vine became the cup of the new covenant in his blood.

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John 15

Key Passages

I Am the True Vine

John 15:1-5

Jesus calls himself the true vine and his followers the branches - fruitful only as they abide in him.

I1 am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

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Did You Know?

1

Israel is repeatedly pictured as God's vine or vineyard.

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Jesus called himself 'the true vine' and his followers the branches.

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The first miracle of Jesus turned water into wine from the vine's fruit.

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'Sitting under one's own vine and fig tree' was a biblical image of peace.