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But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”
The Parable of the Weeds
24 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
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But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
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When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.
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“The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’
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“ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
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“ ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.
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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.’ ”
The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast
31 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.
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Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.”
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He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds[a]of flour until it worked all through the dough.”