Mark 12:1

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into 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

2When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

Psalms 147:19He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

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

Jeremiah 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

Ezekiel 20:18I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Matthew 13:10The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them 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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