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Matthew 13:27-31 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

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.

30. Let the wheat and the weeds both grow together until harvest. Then I will tell the harvest workers to pull up the weeds first, tie them in bundles and burn them, and then to gather in the wheat and put it in my barn.’ ”

31. Jesus told them another parable: “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man takes a mustard seed and sows it in his field.

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