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

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.

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?

Ezekiel 20:49

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

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 21:28

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.

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.

Matthew 25:14

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

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 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?

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:

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 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 22:9

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

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.

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.