Jesus Christ of Nazareth taught this parable.
John 15:1-8 (reconsidered)
Truly*, I am the vine and my Father is the vine-dresser*.
Every branch in me that bears no fruit, the vine-dresser removes.
And every branch that bears fruit* the vine-dresser cleans, prunes and purges*, so it may bear more fruit.
You have already been cleansed* by the words which I have spoken to you.
Remain close within me and I will remain close within you.
Just as a branch would never be able to bear fruit by itself, unless it remains within the vine, likewise, neither can you bear fruit, unless you remain within me.
I am the vine, you are the branch.
Remain within me and I will remain within you.
This relationship will bear plenteous fruit. Remember, though, separate* from me and you will bear nothing.
If any man continues not within me, put him outside the vineyard like a foreign branch*; to mature or dry up or wither away. Then, after a time, gather the branches up, and cast them into the fire to burn.
Whosoever remains within me, and my words remain within you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done to, with or by you.
In this my Father is glorified*; that you bear much fruit, and likewise, become my disciples*.
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Truly
or Truthfully
Vine-dresser
Georgos: from <G1093> (ge) and the base of <G2041> (ergon); a land-worker, i.e. farmer :- husbandman, vine-dresser. Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
Genesis 9:20 (KJV)
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.
Zechariah 13:5-6 (KJV)
He shall say, “I am no prophet, I am an husbandman*; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
And someone shall say unto him, “What are these wounds in thine hands?” Then he shall answer, “Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.” (these verses are speaking about Christ)
*Ish-for <H582> (‘enowsh) [or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant]; a man as an individual or a male person +
Abad– a primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication to serve, till, (causative) enslave, etc. :- × be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, + husbandman; +
Adama-from <H119> (‘adam); soil (from its general redness) :- country, earth, ground, husband [-man] (-ry), land. Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
2 Timothy 2:6 (KJV)
The husbandman that labor to exhaustion must first be partaker of the fruits.
Bear Fruit
Matthew 3:8
Therefore, bring forth (bear) fruits worthy of repentance:
Matthew 7:16-17 (KJV)
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Even so, every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.
Matthew 7:20 (KJV)
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Matthew 21:34 (KJV)
And when the time of the fruit harvest drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
Exodus 23:10-11 (KJV)
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy olive yard.
Purge
Katherio- from <G2513> (katharos); to cleanse, i.e. (special) to prune; figurative to expiate :- purge.
Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
Cleansed
Katherio- from <G2513> (katharos); to cleanse, i.e. (special) to prune; figurative to expiate :- purge.
Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. Katheros-of uncert. affin.; clean (literal or figurative) :- clean, clear, pure.Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
Leviticus 14:19-20 (KJV)
The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering. And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
Mark 1:42 (KJV)
As soon as Jesus had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
Psalm 51:1-2 (KJV)
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Ephesians 5:25-26 (KJV)
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
1 John 1:9 (KJV)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Separate
Choris- adverb from <G5561> (chora); at a space, i.e. separately or apart from
Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
Foreign branch
Exo- adverb from <G1537> (ek); out (-side, of doors), literal or figurative :- away, forth, (with-) out (of, -ward), strange; foreign (er). Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
Done
Genomai-to cause to be (“gen”-erate), i.e. (reflexive) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.) :- arise, be assembled, be (-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, × soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
Glorified
Doxazo-from <G1391> (doxa); to render (or esteem) glorious (in a wide application) :- (make) glorify (-ious), full of (have) glory, honour, magnify. Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
Matthew 15:31 (KJV)
Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
Disciples
Mathetes-from <G3129> (manthano); a learner, i.e. pupil :- disciple. Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
John 2:11 (KJV)
This is the beginning of the miracles Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, manifesting forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
John 6:3-4 (KJV)
Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. The Passover, a holy day of Judea was at hand.
Matthew 10:1 (KJV)
When Jesus had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Matthew 26:55-56 (KJV)
In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, “Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
Reconsider: Repent 