But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.

But when the blade sprung up, and produced fruit, then appeared the tares also.

And the servants of the master of the house came, and said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Whence, then, has it tares?

But he said, No; lest while you are gathering the tares, you root up the wheat with them.

Let both grow together till the harvest, and in time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Collect first the tares, and bind them into bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my granary.

Then Jesus left the multitudes, and went into the house. And his disciples came to him and said: Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.

the field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom; the tares are the sons of the Wicked One;

As, therefore, the tares are collected and burned in fire, so shall it be in the end of this age.