Mark 12:1

Then Jesus began to teach them in parables. He said, “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, and dug a pit for a winepress. He built a watchtower and then leased the vineyard to vine growers. Then he went away on a journey.

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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

2At the right time, he sent a servant to the vine growers to receive from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:68He chose the tribe of Judah 1 and Mount Zion that he loved. 1

Psalms 147:19He proclaimed his word to Jacob, 1 his statutes and his righteous decrees to Israel. 1

Isaiah 5:1Let me sing for my well beloved, a song of my beloved about his vineyard. 1 My well beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 1

Jeremiah 2:21I planted you as a choice vine, completely from pure seed. 1 How then have you have changed yourself into a corrupt, worthless vine? 1

Ezekiel 20:18I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, or keep their rules, or defile yourselves with their idols.

Matthew 13:10The disciples came and said to Jesus, “Why do you talk to the crowd in parables?”

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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