That was the true Light which lightens every man coming into the world.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.

Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

For My flesh truly is food, and My blood truly is drink.

Again, a new commandment I am writing to you, which [thing] is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

A ruler shall not fail from Judah, nor a prince from his loins, until there come the things stored up for him; and He is the expectation of nations.

Binding his foal to the vine, and the foal of his donkey to the branch of it, he shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape.

You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equaled] the choice cedars.

Why have You broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?

O God of hosts, turn, we pray; look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;

[It is] burned with fire and dug up; they shall perish at the rebuke of Your presence.

So will we not depart from You: You shall revive us, and we shall call upon Your name.

And in that day God shall shine gloriously in counsel on the earth, to exalt and glorify the remnant of Israel.

Now I will sing to [my] Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. [My] Beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place.

And now, you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and [every] man of Judah, judge between Me and My vineyard.

And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be [left] to be trodden down.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah [His] beloved plant; I expected [it] to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.

Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort- how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness!

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have defiled My portion, they have made My desirable portion a trackless wilderness.

And you, son of man- of all the wood, of the branches that are among the trees of the forest, what shall be made of the wood of the vine?

It is only given to the fire to be consumed; the fire consumes that which is yearly ruined of it, and it is utterly gone. Will it be useful for [any] work?

Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given up to the fire to be consumed, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Israel is a vine with choice branches, her fruit is abundant: according to the multitude of her fruits she has multiplied [her] altars; according to the wealth of his land, he has set up pillars.

[ 3:9] Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your neighbors that are sitting before you- for they are diviners; for behold, I bring forth My servant the Branch.

"Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to farmers and went on a journey.

He also spoke this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.

Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, if the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give you my breasts.

Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he leased his vineyard to keepers; everyone was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.

My vineyard, even mine, is before me; Solomon [shall have] a thousand, and they that keep its fruit two hundred.

In that day [there shall be] a fair vineyard, [and] a desire to commence [a song] concerning it.

I am a strong city, a city in a siege; in vain shall I water it; for it shall be taken by night, and by day the wall shall fall.

Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, preserving that which they have planted, [even] the works of their hands, for glory.

that there should be given to them that mourn in Zion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness; and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.

"For the kingdom of heaven is like a certain landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

Then He began to speak to them with parables: "A man planted a vineyard and set a fence around it, dug a wine vat and built a tower. And he leased it to farmers, and went on a journey.

For we are coworkers with God; you are God's field, you are God's building.