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 taught them in parables many things, and said unto them in the course of his teaching,

And when his disciples came, they said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?

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

AND Jesus continuing his discourse, spake again to them 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: that seeing they may not perceive, and hearing may not comprehend.

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

A certain

Hear another parable: There was a certain man, the master of a family, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and hired it out to husbandmen, and went into a distant country.

Then he began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard, and delivered it to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long while.

Planted

Then he spake this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard; and he came, expecting fruit on it, and found none.

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

But if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou though a wild olive hast been grafted in among them, and become a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

And set

This is he, who was with the church in the wilderness with the angel who spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the oracles of life to give unto us:

WHAT then is the superiority of the Jew? or what is the advantage of circumcision?

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the gift of the law, and the sacred service, and the promises;

And went

As a man going abroad, when he left his abode, and gave his servants authority, and to each his work, commanded also the porter to watch.

For the case is like that of a man, who travelling abroad, called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods.

And not many days after, the younger son, collecting his all, travelled into a far distant country, and there dissipated his substance in a life of debauchery.

He said therefore, A certain man of noble family went into a distant region, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.