Stained glass

Have you ever looked at the stained glass window and reredos (painted panel behind the Communion Table) at St Peter's? If so, have you spotted the common theme?

The verse in the middle of the window is john 11:25f

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

The two repeated images in the window are grapes and wheat. On the right hand side of the reredos are the words, 'I am the true vine', and on the left, 'I am the bread of life'. So the words explain the pictures, and are linked by the theme of life (if you don't remain in the vine, you wither - John 15).

Then, either side of the words from John 11 is a tree. On the left, the fruit is ripe. On the right it's not. Is this the tree of life that stands either side of the river in Revelation 22 (cf Ezek 47:8-9, 12).

So there at the front of church is a window which proclaims life in the new heaven and new earth through Jesus.