Matthew 13:25
"but while men were asleep his enemy came and sowed tares among his wheat and went away.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
In Context
26"And when the blade shot up and formed the wheat-kernel, then the tares also appeared.
Cross References
Matthew 13:39"The enemy who sows the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are the angels.
Acts 20:30and that from among your own number, men will arise, perverting the truth, to draw away the disciples after them.
Galatians 2:4Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.
Hebrews 12:15Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.
2 Peter 2:1But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 13:25-44
Parable of the Tares, the Mustard-Seed, the Leaven, &c.. 24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28 He… Read the whole commentary →