Verse 1

I am the true vine, and my father is the husbandman.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 2:21 : 21 Wheras I planted thee a noble vine, and wholly a right seede: howe art thou turned then into a bitter vnfruitfull and straunge grape?
  • Isa 27:2-3 : 2 In that day see that ye sing of the congregation which is the vineyarde that bringeth foorth the best wine: 3 Euen I the Lorde do kepe it, in due seasons shall I water it: and lest the enemie do it any harme, I wyll both night and day preserue it.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the lawe was geuen by Moyses: but grace and trueth came by Iesus Christe.
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we together are Gods labourers, ye are Gods husbandrie ye are Gods buyldyng.
  • Ps 80:8-9 : 8 Thou dydst translate a vine out of Egypt: thou didst cast out the Heathen, and planted it. 9 Thou madst roome before it: thou causedst it to take roote, and it hath filled the lande. 10 The hilles were couered with her shadowe: and goodly high Cedar trees with her bowes. 11 She stretched out her braunches vnto the sea: and her bowes vnto the riuer. 12 Why hast thou then broken downe her hedge: that all they whiche go by plucke of her grapes? 13 The wylde bore out of the wood rooteth it vp: and the wylde beast of the fielde deuoureth it. 14 Turne thee agayne thou God of hoastes I pray thee: loke downe from heauen, beholde and visite this vine 15 and vineyarde that thy ryght hande hath planted, and the young braunche which thou hast fortified for thy selfe. 16 It is brent with fire and cut downe: they shall perishe at the rebuke of thy countenaunce. 17 Let thy hande be vpon the man of thy right hande: and vpon the sonne of man whom thou hast fortified for thyne owne selfe. 18 And so we wyll not go backe from thee: thou shalt reuiue vs, and we wyll call vpon thy name. 19 Turne vs agayne O God, Lorde of hoastes: shewe the light of thy countenaunce, and we shalbe saued.
  • Isa 5:1-7 : 1 Nowe wyll I syng my beloued friende, a song of my friende touching his vineyard: My beloued friende hath a vineyarde in a very fruiteful plenteous grounde. 2 This he hedged, and gathered out the stones from it, and planted it with the choysest vine: In the middest of it builded he a towre, also made a wine presse therin: and he loked that it shoulde bring him grapes, and it brought foorth wylde grapes. 3 Nowe O citezen of Hierusalem, and man of Iuda, iudge I pray thee betwixt me and my vineyarde: 4 What more coulde haue ben done for it, that I haue not done? Wherfore then hath it geuen wylde grapes, where I loked to haue had grapes of it? 5 Well, nowe I shall tell you howe I will do with my vineyarde: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perishe, and breake downe the wall therof, that it may be troden vnder foote. 6 I wyll lay it waste, it shall neither be digged nor cut, but beare thornes and briers: I wyll also forbyd the cloudes that they shall not rayne vpon it. 7 As for the vineyarde of the Lorde of hoastes, it is the house of Israel: and the man of Iuda, the plant of his pleasure: Of these he loked for equitie, but see there is oppression for ryghteousnesse, and lo it is a crying.
  • Matt 21:33 : 33 Hearken another similitude. There was a certayne man, an householder, which made a vineyarde, & hedged it rounde about, and made a wynepresse in it, and buylt a towre, and let it out to husbande men: and went into a strange countrey.
  • Luke 13:6 : 6 He tolde also this similitude. A certaine man had a figge tree planted in his vineyarde, and he came, and sought fruite theron, and founde none.
  • Isa 4:2 : 2 In that day shall the budde of the Lorde be beautifull and glorious, and the fruite of the earth shalbe excellent and pleasaunt, for them that are escaped of Israel.
  • John 6:55 : 55 For my fleshe is meate in deede, and my blood is drynke in deede.
  • 1 John 2:8 : 8 Agayne, a newe commaundement I write vnto you, that is true in hym, and the same is true also in you: For the darkenesse is past, and the true lyght nowe shyneth.
  • John 6:32 : 32 Then Iesus sayde vnto them: Ueryly veryly I say vnto you, Moyses gaue you not yt bread fro heauen, but my father geueth you ye true bread fro heaue.
  • John 1:9 : 9 That lyght was the true lyght, which lyghteth euery man that commeth into the worlde.
  • Mark 12:1 : 1 And he beganne to speake vnto them by parables. A certayne man planted a vineyarde, and compassed it about with an hedge, and ordeyned a wynepresse, and built a towre, and let it out vnto husbande men: and went into a straunge countrey.
  • Matt 20:1 : 1 For the kyngdome of heauen is lyke vnto a man, that is an householder, whiche went out earlye in the mornyng to hire labourers into his vineyarde.
  • Ezek 15:2-6 : 2 Thou sonne of man, what commeth of the vine tree, more then of euery other tree, & of the wylde vine stocke among other trees of the forest? 3 Do men take wood of it to make any worke withall? or wyll men take a pin of it to hang any vessell theron? 4 Behold, it is cast in the fire to be brent, the fire consumeth both the endes of it, the middes of it is brent: is it meete then for any worke? 5 Seeing then that it was meete for no worke beyng whole, muche lesse may there any thing be made of it when the fire hath consumed and brent it. 6 And therefore thus saith the Lorde god, As the vine tree that is among the trees of the forest, which I haue geuen to the fire to be consumed: so wyll I geue the inhabitauntes of Hierusalem.
  • Hos 10:1 : 1 Israel is an emptie vine, yet hath it brought foorth fruite to it selfe, accordyng to the multitude of the fruite therof he hath encreased alwayes: accordyng to the goodnesse of their lande they haue made them faire images.
  • Zech 3:8 : 8 Heare O Iosua thou hie priest, thou & thy felowes that sit before thee, for they are monstruous persons: behold, I wyl bring foorth the braunche my seruaunt.
  • Gen 49:10-11 : 10 The scepter shal not depart from Iuda, and a law geuer from betweene his feete, vntyll Silo come: And vnto hym shall the gatheryng of the people be. 11 He shall bynde his foale vnto ye vine, and his asses colt vnto the braunche: He wasshed his garment in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes.
  • Song 7:12 : 12 In the mornyng wyll we go see the vineyarde, we wyll see yf the vine be sprong foorth, yf the grapes be growen, and yf the pomegranates be shot out. There will I geue thee my brestes:
  • Song 8:11-12 : 11 Solomon hath a vineyarde at BaalHamon: and this vineyarde deliuered he vnto the kepers, that euery one for the fruite therof shoulde geue hym a thousande peeces of siluer. 12 My vineyarde which is myne, is in my syght: thou (O Solomon) must haue a thousande, and the kepers two hundred, which kepe the fruite.
  • Isa 60:21 : 21 Thy people shalbe all righteous and possesse the lande euer, the floure of my planting, the worke of my hands wherof I wyll reioyce.
  • Isa 61:3 : 3 That I might geue vnto them that mourne in Sion, that I might geue I say beautie in steede of asshes, ioyfull oyntment for sighing, pleasaunt rayment for an heauie minde, that they might be called trees of righteousnesse, a planting of the Lorde for hym to reioyce in.
  • Jer 12:10 : 10 Diuers heardmen haue broke downe my vineyarde, and troden vpon my portion: of my pleasaunt portion they haue made a wildernesse and desert.