26. Now when the stalk sprouted and produced grain, then the weeds also appeared.
27. So the slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Master, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?’
28. But he replied, ‘An enemy did this.’ Now the slaves say to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go out and gather them up?’
29. But he says, ‘No, for while you are gathering up the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.