John 15:1
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Was Jesus the vine or the root?
PROBLEM: John portrays Jesus as the vine of which believers are the branches. But elsewhere the Bible calls Him a “root out of dry ground” (Isaiah 53:2).
SOLUTION: Both of these are appropriate figures of Christ, each describing a different aspect of His ministry. Jesus was a root (source of life) in relation to the vine (Israel) in the OT. But He is the vine in which believers abide for spiritual life in the NT (John 15:1; John 15:3).