Mark 12:1

The Parable Of The Tenant Farmers In The Vineyard

¹ Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away. ² At harvest time he sent a slave to the farmers to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the farmers.

Certain Man

Far Country

Into a Far Country

Law of Moses

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Mark

Moses

Song of Songs 8:11-12

Solomon owned a vineyard in Baal-hamon.
He leased the vineyard to tenants.
Each was to bring for his fruit
1,000 pieces of silver.

Isaiah 5:1-4

I will sing about the one I love,
a song about my loved one’s vineyard:
The one I love had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.

Matthew 25:14

“For it is just like a man going on a journey. He called his own slaves and turned over his possessions to them.

Mark 4:2

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

Mark 4:11-13

He answered them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside, everything comes in parables

Mark 4:33-34

He would speak the word to them with many parables like these, as they were able to understand.

Mark 13:34

It is like a man on a journey, who left his house, gave authority to his slaves, gave each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to be alert.

Nehemiah 9:13-14

You came down on Mount Sinai,
and spoke to them from heaven.
You gave them impartial ordinances, reliable instructions,
and good statutes and commands.

Psalm 78:68-69

He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which He loved.

Psalm 80:8-16

You uprooted a vine from Egypt;
You drove out the nations and planted it.

Psalm 147:19-20

He declares His word to Jacob,
His statutes and judgments to Israel.

Isaiah 7:23

And on that day
every place where there were 1,000 vines,
worth 1,000 pieces of silver,
will become thorns and briers.

Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you, a choice vine
from the very best seed.
How then could you turn into
a degenerate, foreign vine?

Ezekiel 20:11-12

Then I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them—the person who does them will live by them.

Ezekiel 20:18-20

“Then I said to their children in the wilderness: Don’t follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Oh, Lord God, they are saying of me, ‘Isn’t he just posing riddles?’”

Matthew 13:10-15

Then the disciples came up and asked Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

Matthew 13:34-35

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and He would not speak anything to them without a parable,

Matthew 21:28-14

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

Mark 12:1-12

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

Luke 8:10

So He said, “The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so that

Looking they may not see,
and hearing they may not understand.

Luke 13:6-9

And He told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.

Luke 15:13

Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living.

Luke 19:12

Therefore He said: “A nobleman traveled to a far country to receive for himself authority to be king and then return.

Luke 20:9-19

Then He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went away for a long time.

Luke 22:9

“Where do You want us to prepare it?” they asked Him.

John 15:1-8

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vineyard keeper.

Acts 7:38

He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors. He received living oracles to give to us.

Acts 7:46-47

He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

Romans 3:1-2

So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

Romans 9:4-5

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises.

Romans 11:17-24

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,