Mark 12:1
And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
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2And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.
Cross References
Psalms 78:68But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.
Psalms 147:19He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.
Isaiah 5:1Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
Jeremiah 2:21But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?
Ezekiel 20:18And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:
Matthew 13:10And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories?
Matthew Henry on Mark 12:1
In this chapter, we have, I. The parable of the vineyard let out to unthankful husbandmen, representing the sin and ruin of the Jewish church, ver. 1-12 . II. Christ's silencing those who thought to ensnare him with a question about paying tribute Cæsar, ver. 13-17 . III. His silencing the Sadducees, who attempted to perplex the doctrine of the resurrection, ver. 18-27 . IV. His conference with a scribe about the first and great command of the law, ver. 28-34 . V. His puzzling the scribes with a question about… Read the whole commentary →