Matthew 13:25

Webster's Bible (1833)

but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel{darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the difference becomes very apparent.} also among the wheat, and went away.

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  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
  • Gal 2:4 : 4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
  • Acts 20:30-31 : 30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;
  • Rev 13:14 : 14 He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
  • Isa 56:9-9 : 9 All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you animals in the forest. 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • Matt 13:39 : 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
  • Matt 25:5 : 5 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
  • 2 Tim 4:3-5 : 3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts; 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables. 5 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate your{TR, NU read "that" instead of "your"} woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

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    26But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel appeared also.

    27The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'

    28"He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'

    29"But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel, you root up the wheat with them.

    30Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

    31He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;

  • Matt 13:21-24
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    21yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

    22What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

    23What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most assuredly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."

    24He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

  • Matt 13:36-41
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    36Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field."

    37He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

    38the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel are the children of the evil one.

    39The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

    40As therefore the darnel is gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

    41The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

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    3He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

    4As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

    5Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

    6When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

    7Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them:

    8and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

  • Matt 13:18-19
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    18"Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

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    5"The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

  • Mark 4:26-27
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    26He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

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    5Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

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    3"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

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    14The farmer sows the word.

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    13Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

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    7Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

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    36lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

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    13saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

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