²³ However, the seed sown in rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it; he indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirty times what was sown.”

²⁴ The Parable of the Weeds.^[a] He then proposed another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. ²⁵ While everyone was asleep, his enemy came, sowed weeds^[b] among the wheat, and then went away.