Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
John 15:1
The True Vine
SUMMARY OF JOHN 15: The Vine and the Branches. Bearing Fruit.
Glorifying the Father. The Greatest Love. The World's Hatred. The
Cloak for Sin.
I am the true vine. The scene must be kept in mind. The Lord and
his disciples had just eaten the last supper. He had said, "Arise, let
us go hence" (John 14:31). They had risen, but were still standing in
the room. On the table, from whence they had just risen, was the "fruit
of the vine", and the Lord had said he would never drink it again upon
the earth. In the Old Testament, the Vine is often used as the type of
Israel, planted and tended by the Almighty as the husbandman. See
Isaiah 5:1 Ps 80:8-16 Jer 2:21. Israel, however, had proved a wild and
fruitless Vine. Instead of it, therefore, Christ had now been planted
by the Father as the True Vine.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
John 15:1
John 15:5
Romans 8:1
1 Corinthians 11:24
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