but while the people slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

but when the blade was sprung up, and bore grain, the tares appeared too.

so the servants of the yeoman came and said, Sir, did not you sow your field with good grain: how comes it then to have tares?

no, said he, lest in pulling up the tares, you should root

up the wheat with them. let both grow together till the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will thus direct the reapers, first of all gather the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: then lodge the wheat in my barn.

Then Jesus leaving the multitude, went into the house: and his disciples coming to him, said, explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.

the field is the world: the good seed are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the children of the wicked one:

as then the tares are gathered and burnt in the fire; so shall it be at the conclusion of the age.