Mark 12:1

Holman Christian Standard Bible

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

Cross References

Isaiah 7:23

And on that day every place where there were 1,000 vines, worth 1,000 pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers.

Jeremiah 2:21

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

Ezekiel 20:49

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

Matthew 13:3

Then He told them many things in parables, saying: “Consider the sower who went out to sow.

Matthew 21:28

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

Matthew 21:33

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

Matthew 21:34

When the grape harvest drew near, he sent his slaves to the farmers to collect his fruit.

Matthew 25:14

“For it is just like a man going on a journey. He called his own slaves and turned over his possessions to them.

Mark 11:33

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.”

Mark 13:34

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

Mark 3:23

So He summoned them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

Mark 4:2

He taught them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said to them:

Luke 15:13

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

Luke 19:12

Therefore He said: “A nobleman traveled to a far country to receive for himself authority to be king and then return.

Luke 22:9

“Where do You want us to prepare it? ” they asked Him.

Luke 8:10

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.

Acts 7:38

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