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- Verse 1
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.
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See this parable explained in the notes at Mat 21:33-46. See this parable explained in the notes at Mat 21:33-46.
Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
A certain man planted a vineyard - See this parable explained, Mat 21:33-41 (note).
Christ had formerly in parables showed how he designed to set up the gospel church; now he begins in parables to show how he would lay aside the Jewish church, which it might have been grafted into…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Mar 12:1-12. Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen
1. by parables Another Parable spoken at this time was that of "the Two Sons" (Mat 21:28-32), and "the Marriage of the King's Son" (Mat 22:1-14). St Mark…
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