Mark 12:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear:

Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?

And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories?

But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

And Jesus, talking to them again in stories, said:

And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.

And they said to him, Where are we to get it ready?

A certain

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

Planted

You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?

And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.

I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

And set

And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.

This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.

How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:

And let

Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.

And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

And went

It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property.

And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

So he said, A certain man of high birth went into a far-away country to get a kingdom for himself, and to come back.