Mark 12:1

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“He 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.”

— WEB

“And 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.”

— KJV

“And 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.”

— ASV

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Isaiah 5:1-4 "Let 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, an…"
Song of Solomon 8:11-12 "Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekelsA shekel is about 10 gra…"
Romans 11:17-24 "But 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 th…"
Matthew 25:14 "“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them."
Mark 4:2 "He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,"
Psalms 80:8-16 "You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it."
Mark 4:33-34 "With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it."

Commentary

Christ had formerly in parables showed how he designed to set up the gospel church; now he begins in parables to show how he would lay aside the Jewish church, which it might have been grafted into the stock of, but was built upon the ruins of. This parable we had just as we have it here, Mat 21:33. We may observe here, I. They that enjoy the privileges of the visible church, have a vineyard let out to them, which is capable of great improvement, and from the occupiers of which rent is justly expected. When God showed his word unto Jacob, his statutes and judgments unto Israel (Psa 147:19), when he set up his temple among them, his priesthood, and his ordinances, then he let out to them the vineyard he had planted; which he hedged, and in which he built a tower, Mar 12:1. Members of the church are God's tenants, and they have both a good Landlord and a good bargain, and may live well upon it, if it be not their own fault. II. Those whom God lets out his vineyard to, he sends his servants to, to put them in mind of his just expectations from them, Mar 12:2.

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (public domain)

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