27. ‘The owner’s servants came to him and said, “Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?”
28. ‘ “An enemy did this,” he replied.‘The servants asked him, “Do you want us to go and pull them up?”
29. ‘ “No,” he answered, “because while you are pulling up the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.
30. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: first collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.” ’
31. He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.
32. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.’