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The true vine (hē ampelos hē alēthinē). “The vine the genuine.” Assuming that the Lord’s Supper had just been instituted by Jesus the metaphor of the vine is naturally suggested by “the fruit of the vine” (Mar 14:25; Mat 26:29). Ampelos in the papyri (Moulton and Milligan’s Vocabulary) is sometimes used in the sense of ampelōn (vineyard), but not so here. Jesus uses various metaphors to illustrate himself and his work (the light, Joh 8:12; the door, Joh 10:7; the shepherd, Joh 10:11; the vine, Joh 15:1). The vine was common in Palestine. See Psa 80:8. “On the Maccabean coinage Israel was represented by a vine” (Dods). Jesus is the genuine Messianic vine.
The husbandman (ho geōrgos) as in Mar 12:1; Jam 5:7; 2Ti 2:6. cf. 1Co 3:9, theou geōrgion (God’s field).