Mark 12:1 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹ Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: ‘A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall round it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ AND [Jesus] started to speak to them in parables [with comparisons and illustrations]. A man planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower and let it out [for rent] to vinedressers and went into another country.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ 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.

Common English Bible

¹ Jesus spoke to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower. Then he rented it to tenant farmers and took a trip.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And he began to speak to them in parables: "A man dug a vineyard, and surrounded it with a hedge, and dug a pit, and built a tower, and he loaned it out to farmers, and he set out on a long journey.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ AND he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it, and dug a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it to husbandmen; and went into a far country.

Mark 12:1 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 7:23

In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 2:21

I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, ‘Sovereign Lord, they are saying of me, “Isn’t he just telling parables?” ’

Matthew 13:3

Then he told them many things in parables, saying: ‘A farmer went out to sow his seed.

Matthew 21:28

‘What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, “Son, go and work today in the vineyard.”

Matthew 21:33

‘Listen to another parable: there was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall round it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.

Matthew 21:34

When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.

Matthew 25:14

‘Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them.

Mark 11:33

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

Mark 13:34

It’s like a man going away: he leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.

Mark 3:23

So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: ‘How can Satan drive out Satan?

Mark 4:2

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

Luke 15:13

‘Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.

Luke 19:12

He said: ‘A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return.

Luke 22:9

‘Where do you want us to prepare for it?’ they asked.

Luke 8:10

He said, ‘The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ‘ “though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.”

Acts 7:38

He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living words to pass on to us.