Matthew 13:28–36

²⁸“He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’↗

²⁹“But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.↗

³⁰Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”↗

³¹He set another parable before them, saying,“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field,↗

³²which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”↗

³³He spoke another parable to them.“The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”↗

³⁴Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,↗

³⁵that 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.”↗

³⁶Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”↗