25 But while his[a] people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel[b] in the midst of the wheat and went away. 26 So when the wheat[c] sprouted and yielded grain, then the darnel appeared also. 27 So the slaves of the master of the house came and[d] said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have darnel?’

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:25 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  2. Matthew 13:25 A weed that looks similar to wheat but has poisonous seeds
  3. Matthew 13:26 Literally “grass,” “hay,” but in this context referring to the good plants as opposed to the weeds
  4. Matthew 13:27 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came”) has been translated as a finite verb