but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel amongst the wheat, and went away.

But when the blade shot up and produced fruit, then appeared the darnel also.

And the bondmen of the householder came up and said to him, Sir, hast thou not sown good seed in thy field? whence then has it darnel?

But he said, No; lest in gathering the darnel ye should root up the wheat with it.

Suffer both to grow together unto the harvest, and in time of the harvest I will say to the harvestmen, Gather first the darnel, and bind it into bundles to burn it; but the wheat bring together into my granary.

Then, having dismissed the crowds, he went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Expound to us the parable of the darnel of the field.

and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil one;

The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels.

As then the darnel is gathered and is burned in the fire, thus it shall be in the completion of the age.

to those who, in the patient practice of good works, seek glory and honour and immortality??ternal life.