28. He said, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the slaves replied, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them?’
29. But he said, ‘No, since in gathering the weeds you may uproot the wheat with them.
30. Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
31. He gave them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.
32. It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest garden plant and becomes a tree, so that the wild birds come and nest in its branches.”
33. He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”