Thematic Bible: The fruit of


Thematic Bible



cream from the herd and milk from the flock,
with the fat of lambs,
rams from Bashan, and goats,
with the choicest grains of wheat;
you drank wine from the finest grapes.

But I tell you, from this moment I will not drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it in a new way in My Father’s kingdom with you.”


Abigail hurried, taking 200 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

Then they gave him some pressed figs and two clusters of raisins. After he ate he revived, for he hadn’t eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.


“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want until you are full, but you must not put any in your container.


Rather, each will die for his own wrongdoing. Anyone who eats sour grapes—his own teeth will be set on edge.


At that time I saw people in Judah treading wine presses on the Sabbath. They were also bringing in stores of grain and loading them on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.


On the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms came out and its clusters ripened into grapes.


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