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 many things in parables, and said to them in his teaching,

And the disciples came and said to him, Why dost thou speak to them in parables?

But what think ye? A man had two sons: he came to the first, and said, Son, go, work today in the vineyard.

Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, and said,

And he said, To you it hath been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God; but to others [these things are spoken] in parables; that while seeing they may not see, and while hearing they may not understand.

And they said to him, Where wilt thou that we make it ready?

A certain

Hear another parable. There was a householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and dug in it a winepress, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time.

Planted

He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a figtree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none.

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

And if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou, a wild olive, hast been grafted in among them, and become a partaker with them of the root and fatness of the olivetree,

And set

This is he that was in the assembly in the wilderness with the anger who spake to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living oracles to give to us;

What then is the advantage of the Jew? or what the benefit of circumcision?

who are Israelites; whom God adopted as sons, whose was the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of the sanctuary, and the promises;

And went

As a man going abroad, having left his house and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, also commanded the porter to watch,

For it will be as when a man going abroad called his own servants, and intrusted to them his property;

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and went abroad into a far country; and there wasted his substance in riotous living.

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