TSK · Mark 12:1

But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.

He showeth his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel.

Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?

And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.

And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his teaching,

And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it;

[ It is] as [when] a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter to watch.

And he spake this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none.

He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we make ready?

This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us:

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?

But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;