John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

English Standard Version
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

New American Standard Bible
"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

King James Bible
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vineyard keeper.

International Standard Version
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vintner.

American Standard Version
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I AM the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman.

Darby Bible Translation
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Young's Literal Translation
'I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;

Cross References

Psalm 80:8
You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Isaiah 5:1
Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

Ezekiel 19:10
Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Matthew 15:13
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.

Matthew 21:33
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dig a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to farmers, and went into a far country:

John 15:2
Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Romans 11:17
And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are laborers together with God: you are God's husbandry, you are God's building.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

15:1-8 Jesus Christ is the Vine, the true Vine. The union of the human and Divine natures, and the fulness of the Spirit that is in him, resemble the root of the vine made fruitful by the moisture from a rich soil. Believers are branches of this Vine. The root is unseen, and our life is hid with Christ; the root bears the tree, diffuses sap to it, and in Christ are all supports and supplies. The branches of the vine are many, yet, meeting in the root, are all but one vine; thus all true Christians, though in place and opinion distant from each other, meet in Christ. Believers, like the branches of the vine, are weak, and unable to stand but as they are borne up. The Father is the Husbandman. Never was any husbandman so wise, so watchful, about his vineyard, as God is about his church, which therefore must prosper. We must be fruitful. From a vine we look for grapes, and from a Christian we look for a Christian temper, disposition, and life. We must honour God, and do good; this is bearing fruit. The unfruitful are taken away. And even fruitful branches need pruning; for the best have notions, passions, and humours, that require to be taken away, which Christ has promised to forward the sanctification of believers, they will be thankful, for them. The word of Christ is spoken to all believers; and there is a cleansing virtue in that word, as it works grace, and works out corruption. And the more fruit we bring forth, the more we abound in what is good, the more our Lord is glorified. In order to fruitfulness, we must abide in Christ, must have union with him by faith. It is the great concern of all Christ's disciples, constantly to keep up dependence upon Christ, and communion with him. True Christians find by experience, that any interruption in the exercise of their faith, causes holy affections to decline, their corruptions to revive, and their comforts to droop. Those who abide not in Christ, though they may flourish for awhile in outward profession, yet come to nothing. The fire is the fittest place for withered branches; they are good for nothing else. Let us seek to live more simply on the fulness of Christ, and to grow more fruitful in every good word and work, so may our joy in Him and in his salvation be full.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 15

Joh 15:1-27. Discourse at the Supper Table Continued.

1-8. The spiritual oneness of Christ and His people, and His relation to them as the Source of all their spiritual life and fruitfulness, are here beautifully set forth by a figure familiar to Jewish ears (Isa 5:1, &c.).

I am the true vine—of whom the vine of nature is but a shadow.

my Father is the husbandman—the great Proprietor of the vineyard, the Lord of the spiritual kingdom. (It is surely unnecessary to point out the claim to supreme divinity involved in this).