8 Bible Verses about Figurative Fields

For we are fellow workers together with God. You are God's field under cultivation. You are God's building.

Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge and break down the wall that protects it. I will let wild animals eat it and trample it down.

The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. A man found the treasure and hid it again in the field. He is so filled with joy he sells everything he owns and buys the field.

He told another illustration, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like a man that sowed good seed in his field.

The servants of the householder said to him: 'Sir, did you sow good seed in your field? Why does it have weeds mixed in with the good wheat?'

In another illustration Jesus said: The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man sowed in his field.

Then he left the crowds and went into the house. His disciples gathered near him. They said: Explain to us the illustration of the weeds in the field.

The field is the world (the society of mankind). The good seed are the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one.