Mark 12:1

Then Jesus told those Jewish leaders a parable. He wanted to show what God would do to those who rejected the former prophets and himself. He said, “A certain man planted a vineyard. He built a fence around it in order to protect it. He made a stone tank to collect the juice that they would press out of the grapes. He also built a tower for someone to sit in to guard his vineyard. Then he leased the vineyard to some men to care for it and to give him some of the grapes in return. Then he went away to another country.

Translation for Translators

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 the time came to harvest the grapes, he sent a servant to the men who were taking care of the vineyard in order to receive from them his share of the grapes that the vineyard had produced.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:68Instead he chose the area where the tribe of Judah lived; he chose Zion Hill, which he loves.

Psalms 147:19He sent his message to the descendants of Jacob; he tells to his Israeli people the laws and regulations that he had decreed.

Isaiah 5:1Now I will sing a song about my dear friend, and about his vineyard. The vineyard was on a very fertile hillside.

Jeremiah 2:21It is as though [MET] you were a grapevine that I planted when it was a cutting from a very good vine. So now it is disgusting that [RHQ] you have become like a rotten worthless vine.

Ezekiel 20:18I said to their children, ‘Do not do the things that your parents continually did, or defile yourselves by worshiping their idols.

Matthew 13:10We disciples approached Jesus and asked him, “Why do you use parables when you speak to the crowd?”

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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