Matthew 13:24-30
Wycliffe Bible
24 Another parable Jesus put forth to them, and said [saying], The kingdom of heavens is made like to a man, that sowed good seed in his field.
25 And when men slept, his enemy came, and sowed above tares in the middle of [the] wheat, and went away.[a]
26 But when the herb was grown [Soothly when the herb had grown], and made fruit, then the tares appeared.
27 And the servants of the husbandman came, and said to him, Lord, whether hast thou not sown good seed in thy field? whereof then hath it tares?
28 And he said to them, An enemy hath done this thing. And the servants said to him, Wilt thou that we go, and gather them?
29 And he said, Nay, lest peradventure ye in gathering [the] tares draw up with them [also] the wheat by the root.[b]
30 Suffer ye them both to wax into reaping time; and in the time of ripe corn I shall say to the reapers, First gather ye together the tares, and bind them together in knitches to be burnt, but gather ye the wheat into my barn.[c]
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- Matthew 13:25 But, when men slept, his enemy came, and sowed above tares, or cockles, in the midst of the wheat, and went away.
- Matthew 13:29 And he said, Nay, lest peradventure ye gathering tares, or cockles, draw up by the root with them also the wheat.
- Matthew 13:30 Suffer ye them both wax till to the ripe corn; and in the time of the ripe corn I shall say to the reapers, First gather ye together tares/the darnels, or cockles, and bind them together in knitches, or small bundles, to be burnt, but gather ye the wheat into my barn.
2001 by Terence P. Noble