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Parables of the Kingdom · Matthew 13

Story guide: A field master stopping servants from uprooting intertwined darnel weeds and wheat. This shared image is not a scene-for-scene rendering of Matthew 13:36-43.

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36Then, after leaving the crowds, he went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.”

37He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.”

38The field is the world, and the good seed—these are the sons of the kingdom. And the weeds are the sons of the evil one,

39And the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

40Therefore, just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

41The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of stumbling and those who practice lawlessness,

42and they will throw them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there.

43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears, let him hear.

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