⁴⁸ When it was full, ^(A)men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad.

³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, ^(A)“Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

⁴⁰ Just as the weeds ^(A)are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at ^(B)the end of the age. ^41 (C)The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all ^(D)causes of sin and ^(E)all law-breakers, ^42 (F)and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place ^(G)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then ^(H)the righteous will shine like the sun ^(I)in the kingdom of their Father. ^(J)He who has ears, let him hear.

¹² His ^(A)winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and ^(B)gather his wheat into the barn, ^(C)but the chaff he will burn with ^(D)unquenchable fire.”