NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 28

Matthew 13:28

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“He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’

“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’

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Matthew 13:25–31

25

but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

26

But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

27

The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’

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“He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’

“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’

29

“But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.

30

Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

31

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field,

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