Chiasm
John 15:01–08
John 15:01–083 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1-2 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
- B 3-4a Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you.
- C 4b As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
- D 5a I am the vine, ye are the branches.
- C' 5b-6 He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 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.
- C 4b As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
- B' 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
- B 3-4a Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you.
- A' 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.