and, while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares in the midst of the wheat, and went away.

And, when the blade sprang up, and produced fruit, then appeared the tares also.

And the servants of the house-holder, corning near, said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Whence, then, has it tares?'

He says, 'No; lest, while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them.

Suffer both to grow together until the harvest. And, in the season of harvest, I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them into bundles, with the view of burning them; but gather the wheat into my barn.'"

Then, leaving the multitudes, He went into the house; and His disciples came to Him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field."

The field is the world: and the good seed, these are the sons of the Kingdom; but the tares are the sons of the evil one;

As, therefore, the tares are gathered up, and are burned with fire, so shall it be in the end of the age.