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When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
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The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’
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‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
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‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.
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Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
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He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field.
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Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
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He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
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Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
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So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”
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Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
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He replied, “The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
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The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
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and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
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As the weeds are collected and burned in the fire, so will it be at the end of the age.
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The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness.
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And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.