Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are heavenly agents.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
The enemy who sowed them is the Devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.
American Standard Version
and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
The enemy who scattered the weed seeds is the devil; the harvest time is the end of the world; and the harvesters are angels.
Anderson New Testament
the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.
Bible in Basic English
And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.
Common New Testament
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Daniel Mace New Testament
the enemy that sowed them is the devil: the harvest is the conclusion of the age: and the reapers are the angels.
Darby Translation
and the enemy who has sowed it is the devil; and the harvest is the completion of the age, and the harvestmen are angels.
Godbey New Testament
and the enemy sowing them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are the angels.
Goodspeed New Testament
The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.
John Wesley New Testament
The enemy that sowed them is the devil: the harvest is the end of the world; the reapers are the angels.
Julia Smith Translation
And the enemy having sowed them is the devil; and the harvest is the end of time; and the reapers are the messengers.
King James 2000
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Modern King James verseion
The enemy who sowed them is the Devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the enemy that soweth them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers be the angels.
Moffatt New Testament
the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are angels.
Montgomery New Testament
"The enemy who sows the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are the angels.
NET Bible
and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
New Heart English Bible
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Noyes New Testament
the enemy that sowed them is the Devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.
Sawyer New Testament
the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the consummation of the world; and the reapers are angels.
The Emphasized Bible
And, the enemy that sowed them, is the adversary, and, the harvest, is, the conclusion of an age, and, the reapers, are, messengers.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And the enemy who sowed them is the Devil. The harvest-time is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Webster
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Weymouth New Testament
The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels.
Williams New Testament
The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the close of the age, the reapers are angels.
World English Bible
The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Worrell New Testament
and the enemy that sowed them is the Devil; and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.
Worsley New Testament
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Youngs Literal Translation
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is a full end of the age, and the reapers are messengers.
Themes
Adversary » Power of » Sowing the tares
Agriculture » Figurative » Parable » Of the tares
Angel (a spirit) » Functions of » Will be with Christ at the judgment
Angels » Execute the purposes of God
Devil/devils » What the devil is
End of the world » What the end of the world is likened to
Gospel » Compared to » Good seed
Harvest » The day of the lord’s harvest
Harvest » Illustrative » Of the end of the world
Jesus Christ » Kingdom of » Its nature
Jesus Christ » History of » Parable of the tares and other teachings (in galilee)
Jesus Christ » Parables of » The tares (darnel)
Kingdom of God » What the kingdom of God is likened to
Kingdom of heaven » Compared » To a man who sowed good seed
Parables » Parables of Christ » Tares
Reaping » Illustrative of » The final judgment
Satan » Vanquished promises of ultimate triumph » Sowing the tares
Satan's » Work » Sowing the tares
Separation » Who the lord will separate
Serpent » Power of » Sowing the tares
Tempter » Power of » Sowing the tares
Titles and names of the devil » Enemy
Topics
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 13:39
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Parable Of The Weeds Interpreted
38 and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of evil. 39 And the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are heavenly agents. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered up and burned in fire, so it will be at the end of this age.
Cross References
Matthew 24:3
And as he sat on the mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? And what is the sign of thy coming, and of the termination of the age?
Joel 3:13
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread ye, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow. For their wickedness is great.
Matthew 13:49
So it will be at the end of the age. The heavenly agents will come forth, and separate the bad from among the righteous,
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe all things, as many as I commanded you. And lo, I am with you all the days, until the end of the age. Truly.
Daniel 7:10
A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set, and the books were opened.
Matthew 13:25
But while the men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares in the midst the wheat, and went away.
Matthew 13:28
And he said to them, A hostile man did this. And the bondmen said to him, Do thou desire therefore, after going, we would gather them up?
Matthew 25:31
But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the holy agents with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent enticed Eve by his craftiness, so your thoughts might be corrupted from the simplicity in the Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are FALSE apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ.
Ephesians 2:2
in which ye once walked according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 6:11-12
Put on the full armor of God to enable you to stand against the wiles of the devil.
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10
and relief with us, to you who are restricted, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his agents of power
2 Thessalonians 2:8-11
And then the lawless will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth, and will neutralize at the appearance of his coming.
Hebrews 9:26
since it would be necessary for him to suffer often, from the foundation of the world. But now once, at the end of the ages, he was made known for an annulment of sin by the sacrifice of himself.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.
Jude 1:14
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, Behold, Lord came with his holy myriads,
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, he who leads the whole world astray. He was cast out to the earth, and his agents were cast out with him.
Revelation 13:14
And it leads my kind astray (those dwelling on the earth) because of the signs that were given it to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast that had the sword-wound and live
Revelation 14:15-19
And another agent came out from the temple, crying out in a great voice to him who sits on the cloud, Send forth thy sickle and reap, because the hour has come to reap, because the harvest of the earth is ripe.
Revelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and the FALSE prophet with it who did the signs in its sight by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship its image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire
Revelation 20:2-3
And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, who leads the whole world astray, and bound him a thousand years.
Revelation 20:7-10
And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed out of his prison.