• Mark 1

  • Video Introduction to the Book of Mark

  • Gospel of Mark—Some Major Events

  • The Wilderness

  • John the Baptizer’s Clothing and Appearance

  • Locusts

  • Wild Honey

  • Sandals

  • The Jordan River

  • View of the Valley of Jezreel

  • The Wilderness of Judea, West of the Jordan River

  • Wild Beasts of the Wilderness

  • Casting a Net

  • Fish of the Sea of Galilee

  • Synagogue in Capernaum

  • Mark 4

  • Domestic Lampstand

  • First-Century Fishing Boat

  • Remains of a Galilean Fishing Boat

  • Jesus Calms the Storm

  • Mark 5

  • Cliffs on the Eastern Side of the Sea of Galilee

  • Mark 6

  • Staff and Food Pouch

  • Baskets

  • The Marketplace

  • Mark 8

  • Coin Made by Herod Antipas

  • Mark 9

  • Mount Hermon

  • Mount Hermon As Seen From the Hula Valley Nature Reserve

  • Upper and Lower Millstones

  • Modern-Day Valley of Hinnom

  • Salt on the Shore of the Dead Sea

  • Mark 10

  • East of the Jordan​—Perea

  • Mark 11

  • Bethphage, the Mount of Olives, and Jerusalem

  • Colt, or Young Donkey

  • Mark 12

  • Winepress

  • Tiberius Caesar

  • The Marketplace

  • The Front Seats in the Synagogue

  • Prominent Places at Evening Meals

  • The Treasury Chests and the Widow

  • Mark 13

  • Stones From the Temple Mount

  • Mount of Olives

  • Mark 14

  • Alabaster Jar

  • The Passover Meal

  • Upper Room

  • Vine

  • Mark 15

  • The Sanhedrin

  • Nail in a Heel Bone

  • Tomb Chamber

  • Mark 16

  • Codex Sinaiticus—End of Mark’s Gospel

  • Codex Vaticanus—End of Mark’s Gospel

The items shown in the illustrations and 3-D video footage in the Media Gallery are based on extensive research. However, they are artists’ renditions and, at times, depict only one of several possibilities.

Vine

Vine

The grapevine (Vitis vinifera) had been cultivated for thousands of years and was commonly seen throughout the area where Jesus lived. If wood was available, the workers made stakes or a trellis to support the vines. During the winter, cultivators pruned the preceding year’s growth from the vines. After shoots grew in the spring, workers pruned any new shoots lacking fruit. (Joh 15:2) This helped the vine produce more fruit of better quality. Jesus likened his Father to a cultivator, himself to a vine, and his disciples to branches. Just as branches on a literal vine receive their support and nourishment from the trunk, Jesus’ disciples receive spiritual support and nourishment if they remain in union with him, “the true vine.”​—Joh 15:1, 5.

Related Scripture(s)

Mt 26:29; Mr 14:25; Lu 22:18; Joh 15:1
Mark 1
Mark 4
Mark 5
Mark 6
Mark 8
Mark 9
Mark 10
Mark 11
Mark 12
Mark 13
Mark 14
Mark 15
Mark 16