Mark 12:1

Jesus tells the parable of a vineyard owner who leases his vineyard to tenant farmers and goes away.

Cross-references · 32

• Isa 5:1–4I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
• Mark 13:34It is like a man going on a journey who left his house, put each servant in charge of his own task, and instructed the doorkeeper to keep watch.
• Song 8:11–12Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.
• Rom 11:17–24Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
• Matt 25:14For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.
• Mark 4:2And He taught them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said,
• Ps 80:8–16You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
• Mark 4:33–34With many such parables Jesus spoke the word to them, to the extent that they could understand.
• Rom 9:4–5the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
• Acts 7:38He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
• Acts 7:46–47who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
• Rom 3:1–2What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
• Luke 20:9–19Then He proceeded to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it out to some tenants, and went away for a long time.
• Luke 19:12So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and then return.
• Ezek 20:18–20In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
• Mark 4:11–13He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,
• Jer 2:21I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
• John 15:1–8“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
• Mark 12:1–12Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
• Ezek 20:49Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”
• Luke 13:6–9Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any.
• Luke 8:10He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries 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.’
• Isa 7:23And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
• Matt 21:28But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
• Neh 9:13–14You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
• Ps 147:19–20He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
• Luke 15:13After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.
• Matt 13:10–15Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do You speak to the people in parables?”
• Matt 13:34–35Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
• Ezek 20:11–12And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
• Luke 22:9“Where do You want us to prepare it?” they asked.
• Ps 78:68–69But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

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