TSK · Mark 12:1

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

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

¶ 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:

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?

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:

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

¶ ‹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.›

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

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

[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.›

¶ 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.›

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 prepare?

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:

¶ What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?

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;