Mark 12:1

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Summary

And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

He began

Luke 22:9

A certain

Matthew 21:33

Luke 20:9

Planted

And set

Romans 9:4

And let

Song of Songs 8:11

Isaiah 7:23

And went

Bible References

He began

And he taught them many things by parables and said unto them in his doctrine,

Then I said, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Does he not speak parables?

Then the disciples came and said unto him, Why dost thou speak unto them in parables?

But what do you think? A certain man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard.

And Jesus answered and spoke unto them again by parables and said,

And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the others in parables that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand.

And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?

A certain

Hear another parable: There was a certain husband of a house who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country,

And he began to speak this parable to the people: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country for a long time.

Planted

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.

Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in the horn of the sons of oil;

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, a seed of Truth, all of her; how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

And He spoke this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came and sought fruit upon it and found none.

I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them and hath been made participant of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

And set

Thou didst come down upon Mount Sinai and didst speak with them from heaven and didst give them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

But chose the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion which he loved.

He declares his words unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

and I gave them my statutes and declared unto them my rights, by which the man that does them shall live by them.

This is he, who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the Mount Sinai and with our fathers, who received the oracles of life to give unto us;

What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

who are Israelites, to whom pertains the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises,

And let

Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; for its fruit each one was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

And it shall come to pass in that day that in the place where there were a thousand vines that were worth a thousand shekels of silver, it shall even be for the briers and for the thorns.

And went

As the man who, taking a far journey, left his house and gave his estate to his slaves and to each one his responsibility and commanded the porter to watch.

For it is like a man travelling into a far country, who called his own slaves and delivered unto them his goods.

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his estate with riotous living.

He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.