New Revised Standard Version
He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenants, and went to another country for a long time.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told the people this story: A man once planted a vineyard and rented it out. Then he left the country for a long time.

New American Bible
Then he proceeded to tell the people this parable. “[A] man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and then went on a journey for a long time.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen: and he was abroad for a long time.

And he began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen: and he was abroad for a long time.

this.

Matthew 21:33 Hear ye another parable. There was a man, an householder, who planted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and dug in it a press and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a strange country.

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Mark 12:1 And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far country.

*etc:

planted.

Psalm 80:8-14 Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it. . . .

Isaiah 5:1-7 I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. . . .

Jeremiah 2:21 Yet, I planted thee a chosen vineyard, all true seed: how then art thou turned unto me into that which is good for nothing, O strange vineyard?

John 15:1-8 I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:6-9 I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase. . . .

and let.

Songs 8:11,12 The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver. . . .

husbandman.

Deuteronomy 1:15-18 And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and appointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and officers over fifties, and over tens, who might teach you all things. . . .

Deuteronomy 16:18 Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment,

Deuteronomy 17:8-15 If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose. . . .

went.

Luke 19:12 He said therefore: a certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.