Mark 12:1

Then Jesus started to teach the people with picture stories. He said, “A man wanted to grow fruit trees in a garden. He made a strong fence around it, and got everything ready. Then he rented the garden to some men and went away to another country.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2The workers did not pay the owner any rent money, but they promised to pay him with a share of the fruit that was picked from his garden. When the time came for the workers to pick the fruit, the owner sent a man to get his share.

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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 →

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