Mark 12:1

Then Jesus began to speak to them using illustrated stories. “Once there was a man who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to some farmers, and left on a journey.

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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

2When harvest-time came, he sent one of his servants to the tenant farmers to collect some of the grapes from the vineyard.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:68Instead he chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion which he loves.

Psalms 147:19He proclaims his word to Jacob; his rules and laws to Israel.

Isaiah 5:1Let me sing a song for my love, about his vineyard. My love owned a vineyard on a productive hill.

Jeremiah 2:21I was the one who planted you like the finest vine, grown from the very best seed. How could you degenerate into a useless wild vine?

Ezekiel 20:18I told their children in the desert: ‘Don't do what your fathers told you to do. Don't follow their practices. Don't make yourselves unclean by worshiping their idols.

Matthew 13:10The disciples came to Jesus and asked him, “Why do you use illustrations when you speak to the people?”

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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