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And he began to speak unto them by parables. Ae 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.

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Matt. 21:33• ³³Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country. (Matt. 21:33)

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Luke 20:9• ⁹And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country for a long time. (Luke 20:9)

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-12: In a parable of the vineyard let out to wicked husbandmen Christ foretells the reprobation of the Jews, and the calling of the Gentiles.

13-17: He avoids the snare of the Pharisees and Herodians about paying tribute to Caesar;

18-27: convicts the Sadducees of error, who denied the resurrection;

28-34: resolves the scribe, who questioned of the first commandment;

35-37: refutes the opinion that the scribes held of Christ;

38-40: bidding the people to beware of their ambition and hypocrisy;

41-44: and commends the poor widow for her two mites, above all.

he began.

Mark 4:2,11‑13,33‑34• ²And he taught them many things in parables. And he said to them in his doctrine,
¹¹And he said to them, To you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them who are without, all things are done in parables,
¹²that beholding they may behold and not see, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest it may be, they should be converted and they should be forgiven.
¹³And he says to them, Do ye not know this parable? and how will ye be acquainted with all the parables?
³³And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear,
³⁴but without a parable spoke he not to them; and in private he explained all things to his disciples. (Mark 4:2,11‑13,33‑34)

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Ezek. 20:49• ⁴⁹And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? (Ezek. 20:49)

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Matt. 13:10‑15,34‑35• ¹⁰And the disciples came up and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?
¹¹And he answering said to them, Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not given;
¹²for whoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall be caused to be in abundance; but he who has not, even what he has shall be taken away from him.
¹³For this cause I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear nor understand;
¹⁴and in them is filled up the prophecy of Esaias, which says, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and beholding ye shall behold and not see;
¹⁵for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they have heard heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
³⁴All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,
³⁵so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the world's foundation. (Matt. 13:10‑15,34‑35)

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Matt. 21:28‑33• ²⁸But what think ye? A man had two children, and coming to the first he said, Child, go to-day, work in my vineyard.
²⁹And he answering said, I will not; but afterwards repenting himself he went.
³⁰And coming to the second he said likewise; and he answering said, *I* go, sir, and went not.
³¹Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Verily I say unto you that the tax-gatherers and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
³²For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the tax-gatherers and the harlots believed him; but *ye* when ye saw it repented not yourselves afterwards to believe him.
³³Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country. (Matt. 21:28‑33)

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Matt. 22:1‑14• ¹And Jesus answering spoke to them again in parables, saying,
²The kingdom of the heavens has become like a king who made a wedding feast for his son,
³and sent his bondmen to call the persons invited to the wedding feast, and they would not come.
⁴Again he sent other bondmen, saying, Say to the persons invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatted beasts are killed, and all things ready; come to the wedding feast.
⁵But they made light of it, and went, one to his own land, and another to his commerce.
⁶And the rest, laying hold of his bondmen, ill-treated and slew them.
⁷And when the king heard of it he was wroth, and having sent his forces, destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
⁸Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy;
⁹go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast.
¹⁰And those bondmen went out into the highways, and brought together all as many as they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was furnished with guests.
¹¹And the king, having gone in to see the guests, beheld there a man not clothed with a wedding garment.
¹²And he says to him, My friend, how camest thou in here not having on a wedding garment? But he was speechless.
¹³Then said the king to the servants, Bind him feet and hands, and take him away, and cast him out into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
¹⁴For many are called ones, but few chosen ones. (Matt. 22:1‑14)

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Luke 8:10• ¹⁰And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables, in order that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. (Luke 8:10)

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Luke 22:9• ⁹But they said to him, Where wilt thou that we prepare it? (Luke 22:9)

A certain.

Matt. 21:33‑40• ³³Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
³⁴But when the time of fruit drew near, he sent his bondmen to the husbandmen to receive his fruits.
³⁵And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
³⁶Again he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they did to them in like manner.
³⁷And at last he sent to them his son, saying, They will have respect for my son.
³⁸But the husbandmen, seeing the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and possess his inheritance.
³⁹And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.
⁴⁰When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what shall he do to those husbandmen? (Matt. 21:33‑40)

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Luke 20:9‑15• ⁹And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country for a long time.
¹⁰And in the season he sent to the husbandmen a bondman, that they might give to him of the fruit of the vineyard; but the husbandmen, having beaten him, sent him away empty.
¹¹And again he sent another bondman; but they, having beaten him also, and cast insult upon him, sent him away empty.
¹²And again he sent a third; and they, having wounded him also, cast him out.
¹³And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: perhaps when they see him they will respect him.
¹⁴But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours.
¹⁵And having cast him forth out of the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do to them? (Luke 20:9‑15)

planted.

Psa. 80:8‑16• ⁸Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:
⁹Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land;
¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were like cedars of *God;
¹¹It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.
¹²Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?
¹³The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.
¹⁴O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;
¹⁵Even the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the young plant thou madest strong for thyself.
¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. (Psa. 80:8‑16)

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Isa. 5:1‑4• ¹I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill.
²And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.
³And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
⁴What was there yet to do to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?-- (Isa. 5:1‑4)

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Jer. 2:21• ²¹And I,--I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me? (Jer. 2:21)

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Luke 13:6‑9• ⁶And he spoke this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit upon it and did not find any.
⁷And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none: cut it down; why does it also render the ground useless?
⁸But he answering says to him, Sir, let it alone for this year also, until I shall dig about it and put dung,
⁹and if it shall bear fruit--but if not, after that thou shalt cut it down. (Luke 13:6‑9)

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John 15:1‑8• ¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
²As to every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and as to every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.
³Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.
⁴Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither can ye unless ye abide in me.
⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.
⁶Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
⁷If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.
⁸In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine. (John 15:1‑8)

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Rom. 11:17‑24• ¹⁷Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and *thou*, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,
¹⁸boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, it is not *thou* bearest the root, but the root thee.
¹⁹Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that *I* might be grafted in.
²⁰Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and *thou* standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
²¹if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.
²²Behold then the goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since otherwise *thou* also wilt be cut away.
²³And *they* too, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in.
²⁴For if *thou* hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree? (Rom. 11:17‑24)

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Neh. 9:13‑14• ¹³And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
¹⁴And thou madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant. (Neh. 9:13‑14)

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Psa. 78:68‑69• ⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;
⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever. (Psa. 78:68‑69)

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Psa. 147:19‑20• ¹⁹He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
²⁰He hath not dealt thus with any nation; and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah! (Psa. 147:19‑20)

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Ezek. 20:11‑12,18‑20• ¹¹And I gave them my statutes, and made known unto them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.
¹²And I also gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah that hallow them.
¹⁸And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
¹⁹I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;
²⁰and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God. (Ezek. 20:11‑12,18‑20)

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Acts 7:38,46‑47• ³⁸This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;
⁴⁶who found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;
⁴⁷but Solomon built him a house. (Acts 7:38,46‑47)

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Rom. 3:1‑2• ¹What then is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?
²Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God. (Rom. 3:1‑2)

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Rom. 9:4‑5• ⁴who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;
⁵whose are the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, is the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (Rom. 9:4‑5)

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Song of Sol. 8:11‑12• ¹¹Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon: He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand silver-pieces.
¹²My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: The thousand silver-pieces be to thee, Solomon; And to the keepers of its fruit, two hundred. (Song of Sol. 8:11‑12)

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Isa. 7:23• ²³And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns: (Isa. 7:23)

and went.

Mark 13:34• ³⁴it is as a man gone out of the country, having left his house and given to his bondmen the authority, and to each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch. (Mark 13:34)

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Matt. 25:14• ¹⁴For it is as if a man going away out of a country called his own bondmen and delivered to them his substance. (Matt. 25:14)

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Luke 15:13• ¹³And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery. (Luke 15:13)

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Luke 19:12• ¹²He said therefore, A certain high-born man went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return. (Luke 19:12)

• They thought to judge Him; the result was, they were themselves judged….in the parable with which the chapter begins the Lord sets forth God’s dealings with the nation as a whole. (“Mark 12” by W. Kelly)

• {a fence} They were duly warned against contamination by heathen corruptions. (“Mark 12” by W. Kelly)

• “dug a wine-vat.” There was every suited preparation for the full results of their work. (“Mark 12” by W. Kelly)

• There was also full protection, for He “built a tower.” (“Mark 12” by W. Kelly)

• “let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.” This set forth their responsibility. The Jewish system in the past is man under probation. (“Mark 12” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.

W. Kelly Translation

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And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard and made a fence round it, and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)