– The land planted with vines was symbolically taken by the OT prophets and also in the NT to speak of the care that God had with his people:
Gen 9:20 : Noah, who was a farmer, planted a vineyard.
Deut 20:6: Is there anyone among you who has planted a vineyard and has not yet enjoyed it?
Deut 23:25 : When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may freely eat as many grapes as you like.
Ps 79,9-17 : You uprooted a vine from Egypt; you drove out peoples to replant it.
Is 3:14 : It was you who devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Is 5,1-7 : I want to sing to my friend his love song about his vineyard.
Is 27,2-3 : On that day, they will say: “Sing the beautiful vineyard!”.
Jr 2,21 : And I who had planted you with choice vines, all of good vine.
Jr 5,10 : Climb walls (of my vine), destroy it, but do not annihilate it completely.
Ez 15,2-8 : Son of man, why would the wood of the vineyard be worth more than the branches of the other trees in the forest?
Ez 19,10-11 : Your mother was like a vine planted beside a stream, laden with fruit and leaves.
Hos 9:10 : I found Israel like bunches of grapes in the desert; I saw your fathers as the first fruits of the fig tree.
Mt 21,33-41 : There was a family man who planted a vineyard. He fenced it in with a hedge, dug a winepress, and built a tower.
Mk 12,1-9 : A man planted a vineyard, surrounded it with a hedge, dug a winepress in it, built a tower.
Lk 20,9-16 : A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenants and went away for a long time to a strange land.
– In the NT, however, it acquires a universal dimension:
Mt 20,1-16 : The Kingdom of Heaven is like a family man who went out […] to hire workers for his vineyard.
Jo 15,1-8 : I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
Rev 14:18-20 : He throws in his sharp sickle and gathers the clusters of the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.
