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 5:1–4Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
• Mark 13:34“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
• Song 8:11–12Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
• Rom 11:17–24But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
• Matt 25:14“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
• Mark 4:2He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
• Ps 80:8–16You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
• Mark 4:33–34With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
• Rom 9:4–5who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
• Acts 7:38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
• Acts 7:46–47who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
• Rom 3:1–2Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
• Luke 20:9–19He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another 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 20:18–20I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
• Mark 4:11–13He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
• Jer 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
• John 15:1–8“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
• Mark 12:1–12He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
• Ezek 20:49Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’”
• Luke 13:6–9He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.
• Luke 8:10He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
• Isa 7:23It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
• Matt 21:28But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
• Neh 9:13–14“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
• Ps 147:19–20He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
• Luke 15:13Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
• Matt 13:10–15The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
• Matt 13:34–35Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,
• Ezek 20:11–12I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.
• Luke 22:9They said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare?”
• Ps 78:68–69But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

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