I Am the True Vine

15 “I am the (A)true vine, and my Father is (B)the vinedresser.

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In that day,
(A)“A pleasant vineyard,[a] (B)sing of it!
    I, the Lord, am its keeper;
    every moment I water it.
    Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:2 Many Hebrew manuscripts A vineyard of wine

21 (A)Yet I planted you a choice vine,
    wholly of pure seed.
(B)How then have you turned degenerate
    and become a wild vine?

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You brought (A)a vine out of Egypt;
    you (B)drove out the nations and planted it.
You (C)cleared the ground for it;
    it took deep root and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with its shade,
    the mighty cedars with its branches.
11 It sent out its branches to (D)the sea
    and its shoots to (E)the River.[a]
12 Why then have you (F)broken down its walls,
    so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13 (G)The boar from the forest ravages it,
    and all that move in the field feed on it.

14 Turn again, O God of hosts!
    (H)Look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine,
15     the stock that your right hand planted,
    and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.
16 They have (I)burned it with fire; they have (J)cut it down;
    may they perish at (K)the rebuke of your face!
17 But (L)let your hand be on the man of your right hand,
    the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
18 Then we shall not turn back from you;
    (M)give us life, and we will call upon your name!

19 (N)Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!
    Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 80:11 That is, the Euphrates

55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

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21 (A)Your people shall all be righteous;
    (B)they shall possess the land forever,
(C)the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
    that I might be glorified.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 60:21 Or that I might display my beauty

The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed

Let me sing for my beloved
    my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had (A)a vineyard
    on a very fertile hill.
He dug it and cleared it of stones,
    and planted it with (B)choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
    and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and (C)he looked for it to yield grapes,
    but it yielded wild grapes.

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
    and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
(D)What more was there to do for my vineyard,
    that I have not done in it?
(E)When I looked for it to yield grapes,
    why did it yield wild grapes?

And now I will tell you
    what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove (F)its hedge,
    and it shall be devoured;[a]
(G)I will break down its wall,
    and it shall be trampled down.
I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and (H)briers and thorns shall grow up;
(I)I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.

(J)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
    is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
    are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
    but behold, bloodshed;[b]
for righteousness,
    but behold, an outcry![c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
  2. Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike
  3. Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike

The Branch of the Lord Glorified

In that day (A)the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and (B)the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel.

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10 (A)Israel is a luxuriant vine
    that yields its fruit.
The more his fruit increased,
    (B)the more altars he built;
as his country improved,
    he improved his pillars.

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The Parable of the Tenants

33 (A)“Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted (B)a vineyard (C)and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and (D)leased it to tenants, and (E)went into another country.

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At the same time, it is (A)a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because[a] (B)the darkness is passing away and (C)the true light is already shining.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:8 Or that

32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

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The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree

And he told this parable: “A man had (A)a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.

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The Parable of the Tenants

12 (A)And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted (B)a vineyard (C)and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and (D)leased it to tenants and (E)went into another country.

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10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard;
    (A)they have trampled down my portion;
they have made my pleasant portion
    a desolate wilderness.

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10 The (A)scepter shall not depart from Judah,
    nor the ruler's staff (B)from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him;[a]
    and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
11 Binding his foal to the vine
    and his donkey's colt to the choice vine,
he has washed his garments in wine
    and his vesture in the blood of grapes.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:10 By a slight revocalization; a slight emendation yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Targum) until he comes to whom it belongs; Hebrew until Shiloh comes, or until he comes to Shiloh

Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for (A)they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring (B)my servant (C)the Branch.

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(A)The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

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Laborers in the Vineyard

20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

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(A)“Son of man, how does (B)the wood of the vine surpass any wood, the vine branch that is among the trees of the forest? Is wood taken from it to make anything? Do people take (C)a peg from it to hang any vessel on it? (D)Behold, it is given to the fire for fuel. When the fire has consumed both ends of it, and the middle of it is charred, is it useful for anything? (E)Behold, when it was whole, it was used for nothing. How much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it ever be used for anything! Therefore thus says the Lord God: (F)Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, (G)which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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17 For (A)the law was given through Moses; (B)grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

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to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
    (A)to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
(B)the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
    the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
(C)that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
    the planting of the Lord, (D)that he may be glorified.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 61:3 Or that he may display his beauty

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