Bible Strands
John 15:1
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses his disciples during his final teachings before his arrest, using agricultural imagery to establish spiritual dependence. The words — ἄμπελος (ampelos) = vine and ἄληθινός (alēthinos) = true, which the Greek syntax directly combine to form the declaration “I am the true vine.” The thread — The vineyard motif runs through Jeremiah 2:21, where God plants a choice vine, Isaiah 27:2, which announces a fruitful vineyard, and 1 Corinthians 3:9, which identifies believers as God’s field and building. Why it lands — The text states Christ as the source of life and the Father as the vineyard keeper, demanding recognition of this hierarchy and submission to the pruning that produces fruit.
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The Greek words
King James Version
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 2:21 I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
- Isaiah 27:2 In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
- 1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
- Isaiah 60:21 Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
- Psalms 80:8 You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
- Isaiah 4:2 On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.
- John 6:55 For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.
- Isaiah 5:1 I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
- Jeremiah 12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
- Hosea 10:1 Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.