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."
Cross References (ranked by relevance)
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.
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,
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:
He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
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?
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.