Mark 12:1

And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to speak to them in meshalim (parables). A man, a Baal Bayit, planted a kerem (vineyard), and he put around [it] a fence and dug a pit for the yekev (winepress) and built a migdal (tower), and he leased it to koremim (vine keepers) and then the man went on a journey. + 12:1 Isa 5:1-7

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

2And the Baal Bayit sent an eved to the tenants, the koremim, in the season [of katzir (harvest)] in order that from the koremim he might receive from the perot (fruit) of the kerem (vineyard).

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Cross References

Psalms 78:68But chose the Shevet Yehudah, 1 Har Tziyon which He loved. 1

Psalms 147:19He declareth His Devar unto Ya'akov, 1 His chukkot and His mishpatim unto Yisroel. 1

Isaiah 5:1Now will I sing of my beloved 1 a shirat dodi touching His kerem (vineyard). 1 My beloved had a kerem (vineyard) 1 in a very fruitful hill; 1

Jeremiah 2:21Yet I had planted thee a choice vine, 1 wholly a zera emes. 1 How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant 1 of a gefen nochriyah unto Me? 1

Ezekiel 20:18But I said unto their banim in the midbar, Walk ye not in the chukkot of avoteichem, neither be shomer over their mishpatim, nor make yourselves tameh with their gillulim (idols).

Matthew 13:10And, approaching, the talmidim said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Why in meshalim (parables) are you speaking to them?

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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