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

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 similitudes, and said unto them in his doctrine,

Then said I, "O LORD, they will say of me, 'Tush, they are but fables that he telleth.'"

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

"What say ye to this? A certain man had two sons, and came to the elder and said, 'Son, go and work today in my vineyard.'

And Jesus answered and spake unto them again in similitudes, saying.

And he said, "Unto you is it given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God: but to others in similitudes, that when they see, they should not see, and when they hear they should not understand.

They said to him, "Where wilt thou, that we prepare?"

A certain

"Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country:

Then began he to put forth to the people this similitude, "A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to farmers, and went himself into a strange country for a great season.

Planted

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Now will I sing my beloved friend a song of his vineyard. My beloved friend hath a vineyard in a very fruitful plenteous ground.

and among all green trees. Whereas I planted thee out of noble grapes and good roots. How art thou turned then into a bitter, unfruitful, and strange grape?

He put forth this similitude, "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.

I am the true vine, and my father is a husbandman.

Though some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, art graft in among them, and made partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

And set

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest unto them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, true laws, good commandments and statutes,

but chose the tribe of Judah, even the hill of Zion which he loved.

He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and ordinances unto Israel.

I gave them my commandments, and showed them my laws: which whoso keepeth shall live in them.

This is he that was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. This man received the word of life to give unto us,

What preferment, then, hath the Jew? Other, what advantageth circumcision?

Which are the Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants and the law that was given and the service of God, and the promises,

And let

Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; this vineyard delivered he unto the keepers, that every one for the fruit thereof should give him a thousand pieces of silver.

At the same time all vineyards - though there be a thousand vines in one, and were sold for a thousand silverlings - shall be turned to briers and thorns.

And went

As a man which is gone into a strange country and hath left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

"Likewise, as a certain man, ready to take his journey to a strange country, called his servants to him, and delivered to them his goods.

And not long after, the younger son gathered all that he had together, and took his journey into a far country, and there he wasted his goods with riotous living.

He said therefore, "A certain noble man went into a far country, to receive him a kingdom, and then to come again.