Parallel Verses
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.
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
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.
39
Cross References
Matthew 24:3
He sat on the Mount of Olives. The disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us when these things will be? What will be the sign of your presence and of the end of the age?
Joel 3:13
Thrust in the sickle for the harvest is ripe! Come and tread for the winepress is full and the vats overflow. Their wickedness is great.
Matthew 13:49
It will be that way at the end of the age. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous.
Matthew 28:20
Teach them to observe all the things I have commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
Daniel 7:10
A fiery stream issued from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set and the books were opened.
Matthew 13:25
While he slept, his enemy came and sowed weeds with the wheat, and went away.
Matthew 13:28
He replied: 'An enemy did this.' The servants offered to remove the weeds.
Matthew 25:31
When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God; but sincere and from God. We speak in Christ in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds will be lead away from the simplicity and the purity (cleanness) 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
You once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power (authority and jurisdiction) of the air, the spirit that is now active in the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 6:11-12
Put on the full armor (every implement) of God, that you may be able to stand against the cunning (inventive) (clever) methods of the devil.
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10
You who 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
Then the evil (lawless) one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will put him to death with the breath of his mouth, and destroy him by the manifestation (brightness) (advent) (revelation) of his coming. (Greek: parousia: presence, return, being near)
Hebrews 9:26
Otherwise he would have to suffer often from the founding of the world. He has presented himself once at the end of the age 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 walks about, seeking whom he may devour (consume).
Jude 1:14
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these, saying: Behold, Jehovah came with many thousands of his holy ones.
Revelation 12:9
The great dragon was thrown down, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was hurled down to the earth, and his angels with him.
Revelation 13:14
And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles he had power to do in the sight of the beast. He says to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast that had the wound by a sword and yet lives.
Revelation 14:15-19
Another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud: Thrust in your sickle, and reap! The time has come for you to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
Revelation 19:20
The beast was captured, and with him the false prophet that performed signs before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.
Revelation 20:2-3
He seized the dragon, the old serpent that is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
Revelation 20:7-10
When the thousand years end, Satan will be let loose out of his prison.