Mark 12:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And 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 wine press, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.

Cross References

Isaiah 7:23

In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! they are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”

Matthew 13:3

And 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; and he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

Matthew 21:33

“Hear another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.

Matthew 21:34

When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit;

Matthew 25:14

“For it will be as when a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property;

Mark 11:33

So they answered Jesus, “We do not 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 going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch.

Mark 3:23

And he called them to him, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

Mark 4:2

And 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 all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living.

Luke 19:12

He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive a kingdom and then 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 for 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 at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living oracles to give to us.