'Wheat' in the Bible
His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear out His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat (believers) into His barn (kingdom), but He will burn up the chaff (the unrepentant) with unquenchable fire.”
But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds [resembling wheat] among the wheat, and went away.
But he said, ‘No; because as you pull out the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.
Let them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First gather the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
So just as the weeds are gathered up and burned in the fire, so will it be at the end of the age.
His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat (believers) into His barn (kingdom); but He will burn up the chaff (the unrepentant) with unquenchable fire.”
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three peck measures of flour until it was all leavened.”
And bring the fattened calf and slaughter it, and let us [invite everyone and] feast and celebrate;
And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.’
but when this [other] son of yours arrived, who has devoured your estate with immoral women, you slaughtered that fattened calf for him!’
Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone [just one grain, never more]. But if it dies, it produces much grain and yields a harvest.
After they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the wheat [from Egypt] overboard into the sea.
The seed you sow is not the body (the plant) which it is going to become, but it is a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or some other grain.
And I heard something like a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius (a day’s wages), and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”
and cinnamon and spices and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat; of cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and carriages; and of slaves and human lives.