Mark 12:1

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

AND [Jesus] started to speak to them in parables [with comparisons and illustrations]. A man planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower and let it out [for rent] to vinedressers and went into another country.

Cross References

Isaiah 7:23

And in that day, in every place where there used to be a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel] a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned into degenerate shoots of wild vine alien to Me?

Ezekiel 20:49

Then said I, Ah, Lord God! They are saying of me, Does he not speak in parables and make allegories?

Matthew 13:3

And He told them many things in parables (stories by way of illustration and comparison), saying, A sower went out to sow.

Matthew 21:28

What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He came to the first and said, Son, go and work today in the vineyard.

Matthew 21:33

Listen to another parable: There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it and dug a wine vat in it and built a watchtower. Then he let it out [for rent] to tenants and went into another country.

Matthew 21:34

When the fruit season drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his [share of the] fruit.

Matthew 25:14

For it is like a man who was about to take a long journey, and he called his servants together and entrusted them with his property.

Mark 11:33

So they replied to Jesus, We do not know. And Jesus said to them, Neither am I going to tell you what [sort of] authority I have for doing these things.

Mark 13:34

It is like a man [already] going on a journey; when he leaves home, he puts his servants in charge, each with his particular task, and he gives orders to the doorkeeper to be constantly alert and on the watch.

Mark 3:23

And He summoned them to Him and said to them in parables (illustrations or comparisons put beside truths to explain them), How can Satan drive out Satan?

Mark 4:2

And He taught them many things in parables (illustrations or comparisons put beside truths to explain them), and in His teaching He said to them:

Luke 15:13

And not many days after that, the younger son gathered up all that he had and journeyed into a distant country, and there he wasted his fortune in reckless and loose [from restraint] living.

Luke 19:12

He therefore said, A certain nobleman went into a distant country to obtain for himself a kingdom and then to return.

Luke 22:9

They said to Him, Where do You want us to prepare [it]?

Luke 8:10

He said to them, To you it has been given to [come progressively to] know (to recognize and understand more strongly and clearly) the mysteries and secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that, [though] looking, they may not see; and hearing, they may not comprehend. [Isa. 6:9, 10; Jer. 5:21; Ezek. 12:2.]

Acts 7:38

This is he who in the assembly in the wilderness (desert) was the go-between for the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and our forefathers, and he received living oracles (words that still live) to be handed down to us. [Exod. 19.]