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 began to teach them many [things] in parables, and was saying to them in his teaching,

Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, they are saying about me, '[Is] he not posing a parable?'"

And the disciples came up [and] said to him, "{Why} do you speak to them in parables?"

"Now what do you think? A man had two sons. [He] approached the first [and] said, 'Son, go work in the vineyard today.'

And continuing, Jesus spoke to them again 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 [they are] in parables, so that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

So they said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare [it]?"

A certain

"Listen to another parable: There was a man--a master of a house--who planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around] it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.

And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

Planted

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; you drove out [the] nations and planted it.

Let me sing for my beloved a song of my love concerning his vineyard: {My beloved had a vineyard} on {a fertile hill}.

Yet I planted you [as] a choice vine, all of it a seed of trustworthiness. How then have you altered before me [into something that is] degenerate, the foreign vine?

And he told this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find [any].

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

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, [although you] were a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the root of the olive tree's richness,

And set

Then you came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right judgments and true teachings, good regulations and commandments.

but chose the tribe of Judah, {Mount Zion} that he loved.

[He] declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

and I gave my statutes to them, and my regulations I made known to them, which, if a person does them, then he will live by them.

This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and who [with] our fathers received living oracles to give to us,

Therefore, what [is] the advantage of the Jew, or what [is] the use of circumcision?

who are Israelites, [to] whom [belong] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the [temple] service, and the promises,

And let

{Solomon had a vineyard} at Baal-hamon; {he entrusted his vineyard to the keepers}; {people paid a thousand silver [pieces] for its fruit}.

And this shall happen on that day: Every place where there are a thousand vines for a thousand silver [pieces] will become briers, and it will be thornbushes.

And went

It is like a man away on a journey, who left his house and gave his slaves authority--to each one his work--and to the doorkeeper he gave orders that he should be on the alert.

For [it is] like a man going on a journey. He summoned his own slaves and handed over his property to them.

And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything [and] went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth [by] living wastefully.

Therefore he said, "A certain nobleman traveled to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.