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 5:1–4Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
• Mark 13:34For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
• Song 8:11–12Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
• Rom 11:17–24And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
• Matt 25:14For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
• Mark 4:2And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,
• Ps 80:8–16Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
• Mark 4:33–34And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
• Rom 9:4–5Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
• Acts 7:38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
• Acts 7:46–47Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
• Rom 3:1–2What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
• Luke 20:9–19Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
• Luke 19:12He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
• Ezek 20:18–20But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
• Mark 4:11–13And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
• Jer 2:21Yet 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?
• John 15:1–8I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
• Mark 12:1–12And 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.
• Ezek 20:49Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
• Luke 13:6–9He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
• Luke 8:10And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
• Isa 7:23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
• Matt 21:28But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
• Neh 9:13–14Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
• Ps 147:19–20He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
• Luke 15:13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
• Matt 13:10–15And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
• Matt 13:34–35All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
• Ezek 20:11–12And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
• Luke 22:9And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?
• Ps 78:68–69But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

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