⁴⁸ when it was full, they drew it ashore, sat down, and put the good into baskets but threw out the bad.

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

⁴⁰ Just as the weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.^{(A) 41} The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all causes of sin^[a] and all evildoers,^{(B) 42} and they will throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.^{(C) 43} Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let anyone with ears^[b] listen!^(D)

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