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 in parables. And he said to them in his doctrine,

And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

And the disciples came up and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?

But what think ye? A man had two children, and coming to the first he said, Child, go to-day, work in my vineyard.

And Jesus answering spoke to them again in parables, saying,

And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables, in order that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

But they said to him, Where wilt thou that we prepare it?

A certain

Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.

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

Planted

Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:

I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill.

And I, I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots 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 seeking fruit upon it and did not find any.

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

Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

And set

And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

And I gave them my statutes, and made known unto them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;

What then is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;

And let

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon: He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand silver-pieces.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns:

And went

it is as a man gone out of the country, having left his house and given to his bondmen the authority, and to each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

For it is as if a man going away out of a country called his own bondmen and delivered to them his substance.

And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.

He said therefore, A certain high-born man went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return.