Mark 12:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

Cross References

Mark 13:34

It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

Mark 4:2

And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear:

Matthew 25:14

For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property.

Acts 7:38

This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.

Luke 19:12

So he said, A certain man of high birth went into a far-away country to get a kingdom for himself, and to come back.

Luke 15:13

And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

Luke 8:10

And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.

Matthew 21:28

But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?

Jeremiah 2:21

But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?

Isaiah 7:23

And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

Luke 22:9

And they said to him, Where are we to get it ready?

Matthew 13:3

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;

Matthew 21:33

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

Matthew 21:34

And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.

Mark 3:23

And turning to them, he said to them in the form of a story, How is it possible for Satan to put out Satan?