25. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.
26. But when the shoots had sprung up and produced fruit, the weeds also appeared.
27. “So the servants of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?’
28. “He said to them, ‘An enemy did this.’“The servants said to him, ‘Will you then have us go and gather them up?’
29. “But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the weeds, you pull up also the wheat with them.
30. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up the weeds first and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.’ ”
31. He told them another parable, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field.
32. This indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is the greatest among herbs and is a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”