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OET (OET-LV) And he_began to_be_speaking to_them in parables:
A_man planted a_vineyard and put_ a_fence _around, and dug a_trough, and built a_tower, and rented_out it to_the_tenant_farmers, and travelled.
OET (OET-RV) Then he started telling them some parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence and a moat around it and built a security tower. Then he rented it out and went off travelling.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parables
ἀμπελῶνα ἄνθρωπος ἐφύτευσεν
/a/_vineyard /a/_man planted
To teach the Jewish leaders, Jesus offers a story or illustration. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate that explicitly. Alternate translation: [Listen to this story: A man planted a vineyard]
Note 2 topic: writing-participants
ἀμπελῶνα ἄνθρωπος ἐφύτευσεν
/a/_vineyard /a/_man planted
Jesus uses the phrase A man planted a vineyard to introduce the main character in the story. Use a natural form in your language for introducing the main character in a story. Alternate translation: [There once was a man who planted a vineyard]
Note 3 topic: translate-unknown
φραγμὸν
/a/_fence
A hedge is a thick wall made from bushy plants that were planted close together. If your readers would not be familiar with this type of wall, you could use the name of something similar in your area or you could use a more general term. Alternate translation: [a wall made of bushes] or [wall of plants]
Note 4 topic: translate-unknown
ἐξέδετο αὐτὸν γεωργοῖς
rented_out it ˱to˲_/the/_tenant_farmers
As the rest of the story shows, the man rented the vineyard not for regular cash payments, but under an arrangement that entitled him to a share of the crop in exchange for the use of the land. If an arrangement like that would not be familiar to your readers, you could translate this in a way that explains it. Alternate translation: [allowed some grape farmers to use his vineyard in exchange for a share of the crop]
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
γεωργοῖς
˱to˲_/the/_tenant_farmers
While farmers is a general term for anyone who farms the ground, in this context it refers to people who tend grape vines and grow grapes. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: [vine dressers] or [grape farmers]
12:1 The antecedent to them is the religious leaders of 11:27 (also in 12:12).
• The beginning description of the story comes from Isa 5:1-7. Jesus’ audience knew the book of Isaiah well and would have immediately recalled this allegory of the vineyard.
OET (OET-LV) And he_began to_be_speaking to_them in parables:
A_man planted a_vineyard and put_ a_fence _around, and dug a_trough, and built a_tower, and rented_out it to_the_tenant_farmers, and travelled.
OET (OET-RV) Then he started telling them some parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence and a moat around it and built a security tower. Then he rented it out and went off travelling.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.