Mark 12:1
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
Καὶ ἤρξατο αὐτοῖς ἐν παραβολαῖς λαλεῖν. ἀμπελῶνα ἄνθρωπος ἐφύτευσεν, καὶ περιέθηκεν φραγμὸν καὶ ὤρυξεν ὑπολήνιον καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν πύργον, καὶ ἐξέδετο αὐτὸν γεωργοῖς, καὶ ἀπεδήμησεν.
Greek NT
Et cœpit illis in parabolis loqui : Vineam pastinavit homo, et circumdedit sepem, et fodit lacum, et ædificavit turrim, et locavit eam agricolis, et peregre profectus est.
Vulgate
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
And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far country.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- λαλεῖν — SBLGNT
- λαλεῖν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- λέγειν — Robinson-Pierpont
- ἄνθρωπος ἐφύτευσεν — SBLGNT
- ἄνθρωπος ἐφύτευσεν — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐφύτευσεν ἄνθρωπος — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
Parable
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
He said to me, "As I was fasting and seated on a certain mountain, and giving thanks to the Lord for all that He had done unto me, I see the shepherd seated beside me, and saying, Why hast thou come hither so early? Because, Sir, I said, I have a station." He said, "What is a station?" I replied, "I am fasting, Sir." He then said, "What sort of fast is this which ye are observi…
Cross-references
- Acts 7:38 — This 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 — Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
- Isa 5:1 — Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
- Isa 5:1 — Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
- Jer 2:21 — Yet 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 — I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
- Luke 19:12 — He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
- Luke 20:9 — Then 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.
- Mark 4:2 — And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,
- Mark 4:33 — And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
- Mark 13:34 — For 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.
- Matt 13:3 — And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
- Matt 21:33 — Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into
- Matt 25:14 — For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
- Mic 4:8 — And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
- Ps 80:8 — Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
- Ps 80:15 — And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
- Rom 3:1 — What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
- Rom 9:4 — Who 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;
- Rom 11:17 — And 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;
- Song 8:11 — Solomon 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.