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And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants?
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And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up?
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But he says, No, for fear that by chance while you take up the evil plants, you may be rooting up the grain with them.
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Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.
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He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field:
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Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.
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Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
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All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:
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That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.
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Then he went away from the people, and went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Make clear to us the story of the evil plants in the field.
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And he made answer and said, He who puts the good seed in the earth is the Son of man;