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Leave both to grow together until the harvest, and at harvest-time I will direct the reapers, Collect the darnel first, and make it up into bundles to burn it, but bring all the wheat into my barn.'"
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Another parable He put before them. "The Kingdom of the Heavens," He said, "is like a mustard-seed, which a man takes and sows in his ground.
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It is the smallest of all seeds, and yet when full-grown it is larger than any herb and forms a tree, so that the birds come and build in its branches."
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Another parable He spoke to them. "The Kingdom of the Heavens," He said, "is like yeast which a woman takes and buries in a bushel of flour, for it to work there till the whole mass has risen."
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All this Jesus spoke to the people in figurative language, and except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them,
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in fulfilment of the saying of the Prophet, "I will open my mouth in figurative language, I will utter things kept hidden since the creation of all things."
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When He had dismissed the people and had returned to the house, His disciples came to Him with the request, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel sown in the field."
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"The sower of the good seed," He replied, "is the Son of Man;
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the field is the world; the good seed--these are the sons of the Kingdom; the darnel, the sons of the Evil one.
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The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels.
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As then the darnel is collected together and burnt up with fire, so will it be at the Close of the Age.