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The Vine and the Vineyard

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Israel the vineyard that disappoints — and Jesus the true vine that bears fruit.

God plants a vine — Israel — and tends it with care, but again and again it yields wild or bitter grapes; the prophets sing of a vineyard that breaks its owner's heart. Then Jesus says, quietly and astonishingly, "I am the true vine." Where the nation failed to bear fruit, he succeeds — and those who abide in him share his life. The trail runs from the songs of a failing vineyard to the abundance of the vine who never fails.
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    A vine out of Egypt

    Psalms 80:8

    You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations, and planted it.

    Psalm 80 remembers Israel as a vine God planted and asks why its walls are broken down.
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    The song of the vineyard

    Isaiah 5:7

    For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.

    Isaiah's vineyard yields wild grapes — injustice instead of righteousness.
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    A choice vine gone wild

    Jeremiah 2:21

    Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality. How then have you turned before Me Into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?

    Jeremiah: planted as a pure vine, the people became a corrupt, wild one.
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    "I am the true vine"

    John 15:1

    “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

    Jesus is the vine that bears the fruit Israel could not; his people abide in him.

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.