be shown that a branch in Me must mean a believer in Me. It means nothing more than a ‘professing member of my Church, a man joined to the company of my people, but not joined to me.’ ”2 Often justification for this interpretation is found by going to the analogy of the vine in Isaiah (Isa. 5:1–7; cf. Jer. 5:10a; Rom. 11:16–24). Here there were branches who were not saved. However, this is irrelevant to John 15, for Isaiah wrote of a covenant people. All Jews (saved and unsaved) are in Israel, but