Mark 12:1
Mark chapter 12 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And 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.
Context
v.1This passage
v.2And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 20:49
Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?
- Ezekiel 20:18
And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
- Luke 8:10
And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to the rest in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
- Romans 11:17
But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;
- John 15:1
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
- Luke 20:9
And he began to speak unto the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country for a long time.