Verse 1

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

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  • Jer 2:21 : 21 I planted you as a choice vine, from the very best seed. How then have you turned into wild, degenerate branches of a foreign vine for me?
  • Isa 27:2-3 : 2 On that day, sing of a delightful vineyard! 3 I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I watch over it day and night so that no one will harm it.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
  • Ps 80:8-9 : 8 God of Hosts, restore us! Make your face shine upon us so that we may be saved. 9 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. 10 You cleared the ground for it; it took root and filled the land. 11 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches. 12 It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River. 13 Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its fruit? 14 Boars from the forest ravage it, and creatures of the field feed on it. 15 God of Hosts, return! Look down from heaven and see; take care of this vine. 16 The root your right hand has planted, the son you have raised up for yourself. 17 Your vine is burned with fire; it is cut down, and they perish at the rebuke of your face. 18 Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have made strong for yourself. 19 Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.
  • Isa 5:1-7 : 1 Let me sing now for my beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. 2 He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a tower in its center and also carved out a winepress in it. He hoped it would produce good grapes, but it yielded only wild ones. 3 Now then, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What more could I have done for my vineyard than I have already done? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes, did it yield only wild ones? 5 Now let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled. 6 I will make it a wasteland; it will neither be pruned nor hoed, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it. 7 For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are the planting of His delight. He expected justice but saw bloodshed; He expected righteousness but heard cries of distress.
  • Matt 21:33 : 33 Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
  • Luke 13:6 : 6 Then he told this parable: 'A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it but found none.'
  • Isa 4:2 : 2 In that day, the branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and splendor of the survivors of Israel.
  • John 6:55 : 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
  • 1 John 2:8 : 8 Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in Him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.
  • John 6:32 : 32 Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.'
  • John 1:9 : 9 The true Light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.
  • Mark 12:1 : 1 He began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, built a fence around it, dug a pit for the winepress, and constructed a tower. Then he leased it to farmers and went on a journey.
  • Matt 20:1 : 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
  • Ezek 15:2-6 : 2 Son of man, what is the wood of a vine compared to any other tree or the branch that is among the trees of the forest? 3 Is wood taken from it to make anything useful? Can one make a peg from it to hang any utensil on? 4 Look, it is put into the fire for fuel. The fire consumes both ends of it, and its middle is charred. Is it useful for anything? 5 Even when it was whole, it could not be made into anything useful. How much less can it be used after the fire has consumed it and it is charred! 6 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  • Hos 10:1 : 1 Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more abundant his fruit, the more altars he built. The richer his land, the more he adorned sacred pillars.
  • Zech 3:8 : 8 Listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your associates sitting before you, who are symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.
  • Gen 49:10-11 : 10 'The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come, and the obedience of the peoples shall be his.' 11 'He ties his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; he washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.'
  • Song 7:12 : 12 Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields; let us lodge in the villages.
  • Song 8:11-12 : 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He entrusted the vineyard to caretakers; each one was to bring a thousand pieces of silver for its fruit. 12 My vineyard, which belongs to me, is before me. The thousand pieces of silver are for you, Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
  • Isa 60:21 : 21 Your people will all be righteous; they will inherit the land forever— the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, for my glory.
  • Isa 61:3 : 3 To provide for those who mourn in Zion—giving them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a spirit of faintness. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord to display His splendor.
  • Jer 12:10 : 10 Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard; they have trampled my portion underfoot. They have turned my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.