Luke 22: 18. For
I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the
kingdom of God shall come. 19. And he took bread, and gave thanks, and
brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for
you: this do in remembrance of me. 20.
Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new
testament in my blood, which is shed for you. 1 John 5: 7. For
there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and
the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8. And there are three that
bear witness in earth, the spirit (The Holy spirit),
and the water (The Word) ,
and the blood (Christ death on the cross for the sins of
the world): and these three agree in one.
John 15:1
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 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. 3. Now ye
are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4. Abide in me,
and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide
in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5.
I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I
in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do
nothing. 6. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and
is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they
are burned. 7. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall
ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8. Herein is my Father
glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
Luke 5: 27. And
after these things he went forth, and saw a tax collector, named Levi,
sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said to him, Follow me. 28. And
he left all, rose up, and followed him. 29. And Levi made him a great
feast in his own house: and there was a great company of tax collectors
and of others that sat down with them. 30. But their scribes and
Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and
drink with tax collectors and sinners? 31. And Jesus answering said to
them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
32. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 33. And
they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make
prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but yours eat and
drink? 34. And he said to them, Can you make the children of the bride
chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? 35. But the days will
come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall
they fast in those days. 36. And he spoke also a parable to them; No man
puts a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then the new
makes a tear, and the piece that was taken out of the new agrees not
with the old. 37. And no man puts new wine
into old bottles; else the new wine
will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
38. But new wine must be put into new
bottles; and both are preserved. 39. No man also having drunk old wine
straightway desires new: for he says,
the old is better.
John 2:1 And the third day
there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was
there: 2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have
no wine. 4 Jesus said to her, Woman, what have I to do with you? my hour
is not yet come. 5 His mother said to the servants, Whatever he said to
you, do it. 6 And there were set there six water pots of stone, after
the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins
apiece. 7 Jesus said to them, Fill the water pots with water. And they
filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said to them, Draw out now, and
bear to the governor of the feast. And they bore it. 9 When the ruler of
the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not from
where it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor
of the feast called the bridegroom, 10 And said to him, Every man at the
beginning does set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then
that which is worse: but you have kept the
good wine until now. 11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in
Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples
believed on him.
This is a
prophecy using illustrations about the Gospel transforming the world.
Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of
David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will
raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: 12 That
they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are
called by my name, says the LORD that does this. 13 Behold, the days
come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the
treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the
mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
The New Jerusalem in
Revelation quotes some of this prophecy, the parts underlined, except
the new wine part. Joel 3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of
Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth
shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the
strength of the children of Israel. 17 So shall ye know that I am the
LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy
mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers
pass through her any more. 18 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the mountains shall drop down new
wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of
Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain
shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the
valley of Shittim. 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a
desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 But Judah shall
dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 21 For I
will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwell in
Zion.
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