Mark 12:1

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And he began to speak unto them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.

Cross References

Isaiah 7:23

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall even be for briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

Ezekiel 20:49

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?

Matthew 13:3

And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow;

Matthew 21:28

But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work today in the vineyard.

Matthew 21:33

Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, which planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.

Matthew 21:34

And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, to receive his fruits.

Matthew 25:14

For it is as when a man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.

Mark 11:33

And they answered Jesus and say, We know not. And Jesus saith unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

Mark 13:34

It is as when a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter to watch.

Mark 3:23

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

Mark 4:2

And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his teaching,

Luke 15:13

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.

Luke 19:12

He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

Luke 22:9

And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we make ready?

Luke 8:10

And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to the rest in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

Acts 7:38

This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us: