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

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 by parables, and said to them in his teaching, Hearken:

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

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

And Jesus answering, spake to them again in parables, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a king,

And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to others in parables, so that seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not understand.

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

A certain

Hear another parable. There was a certain housholder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

Then he spake this parable to the people: A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.

Planted

He spake also this parable.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away;

And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou being a wild olive wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the good olive,

And set

This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the Angel who spake to him in 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 profit of the circumcision?

Who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the worship of God, and the promises:

And went

For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his servants, and delivered to them his goods.

And he divided to them his substance. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took a journey into a far country, and there squandered away his substance, living riotously.

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