King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 13:25
“‹But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.›”
Verse in context — Matthew 13
‹But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth› [it]; ‹which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.›
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, ‹The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:›
‹But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.›
‹But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.›
‹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?›
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