Mark 12:1 Cross References - MNT

¹ Presently Jesus began to speak to them in parables. "There was once a man," he said, "who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine-press, built a tower, rented it to tenants, and went abroad.

¹⁰ Now when his disciples came up to him, they said, ¹¹ "Why do you speak to them in parables?" Jesus answered. "To you it has been granted to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it has not been granted. ¹² "For whoever holds, to him shall more be given, and he shall have abundance; but whoever does not hold, from him shall be taken away even what he holds. ¹³ "This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. ¹⁴ And in them is being fulfilled that prophecy of Isaiah which says. "Hearing you will hear and not understand; Seeing you will see and not perceive; ¹⁵ For the heart of his people is made fat, Their ears are dull of hearing; Their eyes, too, have they closed, Lest some day their eyes should perceive, And their ears should hear, And their heart should understand and turn, And I should heal them.

³⁴ Jesus told all this to the crowd in parables; indeed he never spoke to them except in parables, ³⁵ in fulfilment of the word spoken by the prophet, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things kept secret since the foundation of the world."

²⁸ "But give me your judgment. There was once a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said to him, "'Son, go work today in my vineyard!'

¹⁴ "For it is like a man going into another country, who summoned his slaves, and committed his property to their care.

² Then he began teaching them in parables many things. In his teaching he said to them.

¹¹ He went on to say to them. "The secret truth concerning the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside everything is told in parables, ¹² so that, "for all their looking they may not see, and for all their hearing, they may not understand, lest perchance they should turn and be pardoned. ¹³ "You do not understand this parable," said Jesus. "Then how will you understand the other parables?

³³ With many such illustrations Jesus used to tell his message to people as far as they were able to receive it; ³⁴ and to them it was his practice never to speak except in parables. But he used to explain everything in private to his disciples.

¹ Presently Jesus began to speak to them in parables. "There was once a man," he said, "who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine-press, built a tower, rented it to tenants, and went abroad. ² At vintage-time he sent a slave to the vine-dressers to collect some of the proceeds of the vineyard; ³ but they seized him, and flogged him, and sent him away empty-handed. ⁴ Then he sent another slave to them; and this man they knocked over the head and handled shamefully. ⁵ And he sent another; and him they killed; and many others; beating some, and killing some. ⁶ He had still one, a Son beloved, He sent him last to them, saying, "'They will reverence my Son.' ⁷ "But those tenants said to themselves. 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' ⁸ "So they took him and killed him, and threw his body out of the vineyard. ⁹ What will the owner of the Vineyard do?" "He will come and put the tenants to death," they said, "and will give the vineyard to others." ¹⁰ "Have you not read this Scripture?" (he continued) "The very stone which the builders rejected Has now become the corner-stone; ¹¹ This is the Lord's doing; It is marvelous in our eyes." ¹² And they kept seeking to lay hold on him, but were afraid of the crowd, for they knew well that he had spoken this parable about them; so they left him and went away.

³⁴ Take heed! Awake! for you never know the time. As a man gone abroad and leaving his house gives authority to his slaves, to each his task; and orders the porter to keep watch;

¹⁰ He answered. "To you it is given to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of God; But all others are taught in parables so that seeing they shall not see, and hearing they shall not hear.

⁶ Then he gave them this parable. "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came to look for fruit on it, but found none. ⁷ So he said to the gardener. "'See, for years I have come looking for fruit on this tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why should it actually cumber the ground?' ⁸ "But the gardener answered him. 'Lord, let it alone this year also, till I have dug around it, and fertilized it. ⁹ "If after that it bears fruit, well and good; but if not you shall cut it down.'"

¹³ "Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly.

¹² So he said: "A certain nobleman went abroad to receive for himself royal power and to return.

⁹ Then he began to tell the people this parable. "There was a man who planted a vineyard, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went to another country for a long time. ¹⁰ "At harvest-time he sent a slave to the vine-dressers, to ask them to give him a share of the crop; but the vine-dresser beat him and sent him away empty-handed. ¹¹ "Then he sent another slave; and him also they flogged and handled shamefully and sent him away empty-handed. ¹² "Then he sent yet a third, and him to they wounded and threw him out. ¹³ "Then the master of the vineyard said: "'What shall I do? I will send my beloved Son; it may be that they will reverence him.' ¹⁴ "But when the vine-dressers saw him, they reasoned together, saying. 'This is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance may be ours.' ¹⁵ "So they turned him out of the vineyard and killed him. "What will the master of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶ "He will come and destroy those vine-dressers, and will give the vineyard to others." ¹⁷ He looked at them and said: "Then what does this scripture mean. "The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner? ¹⁸ "Every one who falls on that stone will be broken in pieces; but whoever it falls upon will be scattered as dust." ¹⁹ At this the Scribes and the high priests were seeking to arrest him; only they were afraid of the people. For they perceived that he had referred to them in this parable.

⁹ "Where shall we get it ready?" they asked.

¹ "I am the vine, and my Father the vine-grower. ² "He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more. ³ "Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ "Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵ "I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ "If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours. ⁸ "By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples.

³⁸ "This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness along with the angel who spoke to him in Mt. Sinai, and with our ancestors to whom he gave living words to hand down to us.

⁴⁶ "David obtained favor with God, and asked permission to find a dwelling-place for the God of Jacob. ⁴⁷ "But it was Solomon who built him a house.

¹ What special privilege, then, has the Jew? Or what is the use of circumcision? ² Much in every way. First of all, because to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

⁴ For they are Israelites; to them belong the sonship, the Shekinah glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law; the service of the temple, and the promises; ⁵ theirs are the patriarchs, and of them, as concerning the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God, blessed forever, Amen.

¹⁷ Supposing that some of the branches have been broken off, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among the branches and have become a partaker with them of the fatness of the olive tree, do not glory over the branches; ¹⁸ or if you are glorying, remember that it is not you who uphold the root, but the root which upholds you. ¹⁹ "Branches have been broken off," you say, "that I might be grafted in." ²⁰ True, through their unbelief they were broken off, and by your faith you stand. Do not be puffed up, but fear; ²¹ for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare you. ²² Fix your gaze, therefore, on the goodness and the severity of God; towards those who fell, severity, but towards you, God's goodness, if you continue stedfast in his goodness; otherwise you, too, will be cut off. ²³ And they also those Jews, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in again; for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a mere wild olive tree, and have been grafted, contrary to nature, into a fruitful olive tree, how much more shall these, the natural branches, be regrafted into their own olive tree?