And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?(Mark 11:31)

But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.(Mark 11:32)

And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.(Mark 11:33)

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.

And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.(Mark 12:2)

And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.(Mark 12:3)

And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.(Mark 12:4)

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Mark 12:1 - Cross Reference

And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. (Ezekiel 20:11)

But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: (Ezekiel 20:18)

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? (Matthew 13:10)

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? (Romans 3:1)

And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: (Mark 4:11)

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; (Romans 11:17)

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: (Nehemiah 9:13)

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. (John 15:1)

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. (Song of Solomon 8:11)

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. (Acts 7:46)

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. (Matthew 25:14)

And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare? (Luke 22:9)

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 7:38)

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. (Isaiah 7:23)

And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, (Mark 4:2)

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. (Mark 13:34)

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. (Luke 20:9)

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. (Psalm 80:8)

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. (Psalm 78:68)

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: (Matthew 13:34)

And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it. (Mark 4:33)

But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. (Matthew 21:28)

He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. (Luke 13:6)

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. (Psalm 147:19)

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. (Luke 15:13)

And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. (Luke 8:10)

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: (Isaiah 5:1)

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; (Romans 9:4)

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? (Jeremiah 2:21)

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? (Ezekiel 20:49)

He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. (Luke 19:12)