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which less, indeed, is than all the seeds, but when it may be grown, is greatest of the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven do come and rest in its branches.'
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Another simile spake he to them: `The reign of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'
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All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,
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that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, `I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'
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Then having let away the multitudes, Jesus came to the house, and his disciples came near to him, saying, `Explain to us the simile of the darnel of the field.'
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And he answering said to them, `He who is sowing 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 reign, and the darnel are the sons of the evil one,
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and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is a full end of the age, and the reapers are messengers.
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`As, then, the darnel is gathered up, and is burned with fire, so shall it be in the full end of this age,
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the Son of Man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather up out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing the unlawlessness,
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and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.