Matthew 13:25
Good News Translation
One night, when everyone was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

New Revised Standard Version
but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away.

Contemporary English Version
But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and scattered weed seeds in the field and then left.

New American Bible
While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.

men.

Matthew 25:5 And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept.

Isaiah 56:9,10 All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the forest. . . .

Acts 20:30,31 And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. . . .

Galatians 2:4 But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privately to spy our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude.

2 Timothy 4:3-5 For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears: . . .

Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be defiled:

2 Peter 2:1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

Revelation 2:20 But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the woman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication and to eat of things sacrificed to idols.

enemy.

Matthew 13:39 And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. . . .

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Revelation 12:9 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 13:14 And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, for the signs which were given him to do in the sight of the beast: saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make the image of the beast which had the wound by the sword and lived.

tares.

Matthew 13:38 And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one.

Context
The Parable of the Weeds
24Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field. 25But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way. 26And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:24
Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.

Matthew 13:26
And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle.

Matthew 13:27
And the servants of the good man of the house coming said to him. Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it cockle?

Matthew 13:29
And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it.

Matthew 13:30
Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.

Matthew 13:24
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