Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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; and the tares are the sons of the evil one ; 39 and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered up and burned with fire; so shall it be in the end of the world.
Cross References
Matthew 24:3
And as he sat on the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what'shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
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 shall it be in the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the righteous,
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
Daniel 7:10
A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
Matthew 13:25
but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.
Matthew 13:28
And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this. And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
Matthew 25:31
But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory:
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
Ephesians 2:2
wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
Ephesians 6:11-12
Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10
and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire,
2 Thessalonians 2:8-11
And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;
Hebrews 9:26
else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
Jude 1:14
And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
Revelation 13:14
And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.
Revelation 14:15-19
And another angel came out from the temple, crying with a great voice to him that sat on the cloud, Send forth thy sickle, and reap: for the hour to reap is come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
Revelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:
Revelation 20:2-3
And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
Revelation 20:7-10
And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,