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

A certain

Matthew 21:33

Luke 20:9

Planted

Luke 13:6

John 15:1

Romans 11:17

And set

Acts 7:38

Romans 3:1

Romans 9:4

And went

Bible References

He began

And He was teaching them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said to them,

And His disciples coming, said to Him; Wherefore do you speak to them in parables?

What seems to you? A man had two sons; and going to the first, he said, Child, go to-day, work in my vineyard.

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

And He said; To you it has been 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.

And they said to Him, Where do you wish that we may prepare it?

A certain

Hear ye another parable. A man was a landlord, who planted a vineyard, and placed a hedge around it, and dug a wine-trough in it, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went away.

And He began to speak to the people this parable, A man planted a vineyard and gave it out to husbandmen, and went away a long time.

Planted

And He spoke this parable, A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard; and came seeking fruit on it and found none;

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

And if certain ones of the branches were broken off, and you being a wild olive-tree are grafted in among them, and have become a partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive-tree;

And set

And this is the one being in the church in the wilderness with the angel speaking to him in Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the living oracles to give unto us;

Then what more belongs to the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

who are Israelites, of whom is the adoption of sons, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises:

And went

As a man, going away, leaving his own house, and giving authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and commanded the porter that he should watch.

For as a man going away, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods,

And not many days afterward the younger son gathering all together, departed into a far-off country; and there wasted his substance living riotously.

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