# Mark 12.1

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**Book:** [Mark](/codex/john-mark/) · NASB95

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> **1. <span class="rl-speech">And he began to speak unto them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.</span>**
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> 2. <span class="rl-speech">And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard.</span> 3. <span class="rl-speech">And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.</span> (Mark 12:1-3, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> **1. <span class="rl-speech">He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.</span>**
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> 2. <span class="rl-speech">When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.</span> 3. <span class="rl-speech">They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.</span> (Mark 12:1-3, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> **1. <span class="rl-speech">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.</span>**
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> 2. <span class="rl-speech">And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.</span> 3. <span class="rl-speech">And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.</span> (Mark 12:1-3, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> **1. <span class="rl-speech">And he began to speak to them in similes: 'A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around, and digged an under-wine-vat, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad;</span>**
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> 2. <span class="rl-speech">and he sent unto the husbandmen at the due time a servant, that from the husbandmen he may receive from the fruit of the vineyard,</span> 3. <span class="rl-speech">and they, having taken him, did severely beat [him], and did send him away empty.</span> (Mark 12:1-3, YLT)

## Setting

- **Speaker:** _TBD_
- **Audience:** _TBD_
- **Location:** _TBD_
- **Time period:** _TBD_

## Theological reading

_Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._

## Key words

_Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word; see Lexicon Roadmap._

- _TBD_
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## Quoted in

**Arguments and defeaters:**

- [Deuteronomy 28-68 Slave Trade Prophecy Objection Defeater](/codex/deuteronomy-28-68-slave-trade-prophecy-objection-defeater/), via [Mark 12.1-12](/codex/mark-12-1-12/)

**Concepts:**

- [Jesus Said](/codex/jesus-said/), via [Mark 12](/codex/mark-12/)

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## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.