Mark 12:1

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Isaiah 7:23

At that time every place where there had been a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will be overrun with thorns and briers.

Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes?

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “O sovereign Lord! They are saying of me, ‘Does he not simply speak in eloquent figures of speech?’”

Matthew 13:3

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

Matthew 21:28

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

Matthew 21:33

“Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

Matthew 21:34

When the harvest time was near, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop.

Matthew 25:14

“For it is like a man going on a journey, who summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them.

Mark 11:33

So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

Mark 13:34

It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves in charge, assigning to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert.

Mark 3:23

So he called them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan?

Mark 4:2

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

Luke 15:13

After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.

Luke 19:12

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

Luke 22:9

They said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare it?”

Luke 8:10

He said, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that although they see they may not see, and although they hear they may not understand.

Acts 7:38

This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you.