Mark 12:1
Jesus began to speak to them [the chief priests, scribes and elders who were questioning Him] in parables:
Song of Songs 8:11-12
“Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
He entrusted the vineyard to caretakers;
Each one was to bring him a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
Isaiah 5:1-4
A song of my Beloved about His vineyard (His chosen people).
My greatly Beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile slope (the promised land, Canaan).
Matthew 25:14
Mark 4:2
And He taught them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said to them,
Mark 4:11-13
He said to them,
Mark 4:33-34
With many such parables, Jesus spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear and understand it;
Mark 13:34
Nehemiah 9:13-14
“Then You came down on Mount Sinai,
And spoke with them from heaven;
And You gave them fair ordinances and true laws,
Good statutes and commandments.
Psalm 78:68-69
But He chose the tribe of Judah [as Israel’s leader],
Mount Zion, which He loved [to replace Shiloh as His capital].
Psalm 80:8-16
You uprooted a vine (Israel) from Egypt;
You drove out the [Canaanite] nations and planted the vine [in Canaan].
Psalm 147:19-20
He declares His word to Jacob,
His statutes and His ordinances to Israel.
Isaiah 7:23
And it will come to pass in that day, in every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be briars and thorns.
Jeremiah 2:21
“Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel as] a choice vine,
A completely faithful seed.
How then have you turned against Me
Into degenerate shoots of a foreign and wild vine [alien to Me]?
Ezekiel 20:11-12
I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them, which, if a man keeps, he will live.
Ezekiel 20:18-20
“But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers nor observe their ordinances nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not [just] speaking in parables and making allegories?’”
Matthew 13:10-15
Then the disciples came to Him and asked, “Why do You speak to the crowds in parables?”
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables, and He said nothing to them without [using] a parable.
Matthew 21:28-14
Mark 12:1-12
Jesus began to speak to them [the chief priests, scribes and elders who were questioning Him] in parables:
Luke 8:10
And He said,
Luke 13:6-9
Then He began telling them this parable:
Luke 15:13
Luke 19:12
So He said,
Luke 20:9-19
Then He began to tell the people this parable:
Luke 22:9
They asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare it?”
John 15:1-8
Acts 7:38
This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living oracles [divine words that still live] to be handed down to you.
Acts 7:46-47
who found favor (grace, spiritual blessing) in the sight of God and asked that he might [be allowed to] find a dwelling place for the
Romans 3:1-2
Then what is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?
Romans 9:4-5
who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, the glory (
Romans 11:17-24
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you [Gentiles], being like a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them to share with them the rich root of the olive tree,
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A certain
Planted
You uprooted a vine (Israel) from Egypt;
You drove out the [Canaanite] nations and planted the vine [in Canaan].
A song of my Beloved about His vineyard (His chosen people).
My greatly Beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile slope (the promised land, Canaan).
“Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel as] a choice vine,
A completely faithful seed.
How then have you turned against Me
Into degenerate shoots of a foreign and wild vine [alien to Me]?
And set
“Then You came down on Mount Sinai,
And spoke with them from heaven;
And You gave them fair ordinances and true laws,
Good statutes and commandments.
But He chose the tribe of Judah [as Israel’s leader],
Mount Zion, which He loved [to replace Shiloh as His capital].
He declares His word to Jacob,
His statutes and His ordinances to Israel.
And let
“Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
He entrusted the vineyard to caretakers;
Each one was to bring him a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.