I am the vine,
you are the branches

    "I am the vine, you are the branches.  He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing."

    In addition to the accounts of Jesus addressing large or smaller groups of listeners, there are reports of many occasions when He advanced His ministry in the company of one or two people.  The central scene that dominates this window represents Him at the home of Mary, Martha,  and Lazarus in Bethany.  Busy Martha complains to Jesus that Mary sits at His feet listening to His teaching while there is a meal to be prepared.  He gently rebukes Martha for being "anxious and troubled about many things," and commends Mary's example.

    The smaller medallion shows Jesus (at the left, center) at the well speaking to the Samaritan woman to whom He declared Himself Messiah.  Below, He hears the request of the mother of the disciples, James and John, that they be granted seats on His right and left in the coming Kingdom.  The small medallion directly under the central scene represents Jesus at the Last Supper in conversation with the Beloved Disciple.

    Three parables of Jesus are included in this window.  First, center lancet at the bottom, the parable of the mustard seed is represented, the seed that for all its smallness grows at last into a shrub large enough for the birds of the air to lodge in its branches.  The parable of the talents, right lancet, is represented by the householder who condemns his unworthy servant for burying his talent in the ground.  At the bottom of the right lancet,  the familiar parable of the Good Samaritan brought to life with the picture of the kindly traveler giving succor to the wounded Jew by whom the Samaritan is despised.

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