26. When the plants grew and the ears of corn began to form, then the weeds showed up.
27. The man's servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, it was good seed you sowed in your field; where did the weeds come from?’
28. ‘It was some enemy who did this,’ he answered. ‘Do you want us to go and pull up the weeds?’ they asked him.
29. ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because as you gather the weeds you might pull up some of the wheat along with them.