Mark 12:1

Modern English Version

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went to a far country.

Cross References

Isaiah 7:23

In that day every place where there were one thousand vines, worth one thousand shekels of silver, shall become briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a wholly faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to Me?

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! They say of me, ‘Does he not speak parables?’ ”

Matthew 13:3

Then He told them many things in parables, saying, “A sower went out to sow.

Matthew 21:28

“What do you think? A man had two sons. He came to the first and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’

Matthew 21:33

“Listen to another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and built a wall around it. He dug a winepress in it and built a tower. Then he rented it to vinedressers and went into a distant country.

Matthew 21:34

When the season of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to receive his fruit.

Matthew 25:14

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them.

Mark 11:33

So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” Jesus answered them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

Mark 13:34

For the Son of Man is like a man leaving on a far journey who left his house and gave authority to his servants and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

Mark 3:23

So He called them to Him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

Mark 4:2

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

Luke 15:13

“Not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together, and journeyed to a distant country, and there squandered his possessions in prodigal living.

Luke 19:12

Therefore He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom and to return.

Luke 22:9

They said to Him, “Where will You have us prepare it?”

Luke 8:10

He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Acts 7:38

This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,