Mark 12:1

The English Standar Version

And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it 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[10] 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 parables?' "

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 master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.

Matthew 21:34

When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants[3] to the tenants to get his fruit.

Matthew 25:14

"For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants[3] 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[2] in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.

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 was teaching 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 a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.

Luke 19:12

He said therefore, "A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself 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 the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.