The Parable of the Weeds (MAT 13:24-30)

[13:24] He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field,

[13:25] but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

[13:26] So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also.

[13:27] And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’

[13:28] He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’

[13:29] But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them.

[13:30] Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”