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And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this. And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
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But he saith, Nay; lest haply while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them.
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Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.
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Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
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which indeed is less than all seeds; but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof.
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Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
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All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:
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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.
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Then he left the multitudes, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Explain unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
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And he answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
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and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil [one];