Mark 12:1

New American Standard Bible 2020

And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and leased it to vine-growers and went on a journey.

Cross References

Isaiah 7:23

And it will come about on that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.

Jeremiah 2:21

“Yet I planted you as a choice vine, A completely faithful seed. How then have you turned yourself before Me Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Oh, Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not just speaking in riddles?’ ”

Matthew 13:3

And He told them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow;

Matthew 21:28

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

Matthew 21:33

“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and he leased it to vine-growers and went on a journey.

Matthew 21:34

And when the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his fruit.

Matthew 25:14

“For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them.

Mark 11:33

Answering Jesus, they *said, “We do not know.” And Jesus *said to them, “Neither am I telling you by what authority I do these things.”

Mark 13:34

It is like a man away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert.

Mark 3:23

And so He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan?

Mark 4:2

And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,

Luke 15:13

And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his estate in wild living.

Luke 19:12

So He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then to return.

Luke 22:9

They said to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare it?”

Luke 8:10

And He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest they are told in parables, so that while seeing they may not see, and while hearing they may not understand.

Acts 7:38

This is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness together with the angel who spoke to him at length on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living words to pass on to you.