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Mark 12:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He  began to speak to them in parables: ‘A man planted a vineyard,   put a fence round it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

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‘It is like   a man on a journey, who left his house, gave authority to his servants,   gave each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to be alert.


He taught them many things in parables,  and in his teaching  he said to them,


‘For it is just like a man about to go on a journey.   He called his own servants and entrusted his possessions to them.


He is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors.  He received living oracles to give to us.


Therefore he said, ‘A nobleman travelled to a far country to receive for himself authority to be king   and then to return.


Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and travelled to a distant country, where he squandered   his estate in foolish living.


So he said, ‘The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you   to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so that Looking they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.   ,


‘What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, “My son, go and work in the vineyard today.”


Then I said, ‘Oh, Lord God, they are saying of me, “Isn’t he just composing parables? ” ’


I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?


And on that day every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briars.


‘Where do you want us to prepare it? ’ they asked him.


Then he told them many things in parables,  saying, ‘Consider the sower who went out to sow.


‘Listen   to another parable:   There was a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower.   He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.


When the time came to harvest fruit, he sent his servants to the farmers to collect his fruit.


So he summoned  them and spoke to them in parables:  ‘How can Satan   drive out Satan?


So they answered Jesus, ‘We don’t know.’ And Jesus said to them, ‘Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.’





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