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.
30. Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time, I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the weeds and tie them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.’”
31. He presented to them another parable, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.
32. It’s the smallest of all seeds; yet when it’s full grown, it’s greater than the other herbs. It becomes like a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
33. He told them another parable, “The kingdom of heaven is like hametz, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”
34. All these things Yeshua spoke to the crowds in parables. And apart from a parable, He wasn’t speaking to them,
35. in order to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open My mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”