³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”^(A)

³⁸ The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,^{(A) 39} and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest^(B) is the end of the age,^(C) and the harvesters are angels.^(D)

⁴⁰ “As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. ⁴¹ The Son of Man^(E) will send out his angels,^(F) and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. ⁴² They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.^(G)