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 taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:

And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?

And the disciples having come near, said to him, 'Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?'

'And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

And Jesus answering, again spake to them in similes, saying,

And he said, 'To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of God, and to the rest in similes; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

and they said to him, 'Where wilt thou that we might prepare?'

A certain

'Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

And he began to speak unto the people this simile: 'A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,

Planted

A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.

Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill,

And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine?

And he spake this simile: 'A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;

'I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;

And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --

And set

'And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands.

And He chooseth the tribe of Judah, With mount Zion that He loved,

Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth -- liveth by them.

'This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;

What, then, is the superiority 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 lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,

And let

Solomon hath a vineyard in Baal-Hamon, He hath given the vineyard to keepers, Each bringeth for its fruit a thousand silverlings;

And it hath come to pass, in that day, Every place where there are a thousand vines, At a thousand silverlings, Is for briers and for thorns.

And went

as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch;

For -- as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance,

'And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

He said therefore, 'A certain man of birth went on to a far country, to take to himself a kingdom, and to return,