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

He taught them many lessons in figures, and said to them in the course of his teaching,

His disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in figures?"

But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'My son, go and work in the vineyard today.'

And Jesus spoke to them again in figures, and said,

And he said, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God, but they are given to others in the form of figures, so that they may look and yet not see, and hear and yet not understand.

They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?"

A certain

"Listen to another figure. There was a land owner who planted a vineyard and fenced it in, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a watch-tower, and leased it to tenants, and left the neighborhood.

Then he went on to give the people this illustration: "A man once planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenants, and went away for along absence.

Planted

He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator.

If some of the branches have been broken off, and you who were only a wild olive shoot have been grafted in, in place of them, and made to share the richness of the olive's root,

And set

It was he who with the congregation in the desert went between the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and our forefathers, and received and communicated to you utterances that still live.

What advantage is there then in being a Jew, and what is the use of circumcision?

For they are Israelites, and to them belong the rights of sonship, God's glorious presence, the divine agreements and legislation, the Temple service, the promises,

And went

just as a man when he leaves home to go on a journey, and puts his slaves in charge, each with his duties, gives orders to the watchman to keep watch.

"For it is just like a man who was going on a journey, and called in his slaves, and put his property in their hands.

Not many days later, the younger son gathered up all he had, and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by fast living.

So he said, "A nobleman once went to a distant country to secure his appointment to a kingdom and then return.