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but while people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, then went away.
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When the wheat sprouted and formed heads of grain, 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 have the weeds come from?'
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He answered, `An enemy has done this.' The servants asked him, `Then do you want us to go and pull them up?'
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But he said, `No, because if you pull up the weeds, you might uproot some of the wheat at the same time.
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Let them both grow together until the harvest; and at harvesttime I will tell the reapers to collect the weeds first and tie them in bundles to be burned, but to gather the wheat into my barn.'"
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Yeshua put before them another parable. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed which a man takes and sows in his field.
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It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows up it is larger than any garden plant and becomes a tree, so that the birds flying about come and nest in its branches."
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And he told them yet another parable. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with a bushel of flour, then waited until the whole batch of dough rose."
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All these things Yeshua said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without using a parable.
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This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet, "I will open my mouth in parables, I will say what has been hidden since the creation of the universe."h