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Mark 12:1

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

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.

Mark 12:1 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Mark 12:1

Theological / Devotional

He began to speak. [The Wicked Husbandmen, Mark 12:1–12=Matt. 21:33–46=Luke 20:9–19. Major comment: Matthew.] Mark omits the parables of the Two Sons and of the Man Without a Wedding Garment, both found in this context in Matthew and in Luke. Apparently Mark selected the one that impressed him most as being representative of the truths Christ sought to illustrate in these final parables.

Winefat. Gr. hupolēnion, “winepit,” the trough or receptacle for grape juice running from the wine press directly above it (see on Matt. 21:33).

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