Matthew 13:25
New International Version
But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.

New Living Translation
But that night as the workers slept, his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat, then slipped away.

English Standard Version
but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

Berean Standard Bible
But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.

Berean Literal Bible
And while the men are sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds in the midst of the wheat, and went away.

King James Bible
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

New King James Version
but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.

New American Standard Bible
But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and left.

NASB 1995
“But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.

NASB 1977
“But while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.

Legacy Standard Bible
But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.

Amplified Bible
But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds [resembling wheat] among the wheat, and went away.

Christian Standard Bible
But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and left.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and left.

American Standard Version
but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and he left.

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

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

English Revised Version
but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But while people were asleep, his enemy planted weeds in the wheat field and went away.

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

International Standard Version
While people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

Literal Standard Version
and while men are sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat, and went away,

Majority Standard Bible
But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.

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

NET Bible
But while everyone was sleeping, 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.

New Heart English Bible
but while everyone slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.

Webster's Bible Translation
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and departed.

Weymouth New Testament
but during the night his enemy comes, and over the first seed he sows darnel among the wheat, and goes away.

World English Bible
but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

Young's Literal Translation
and, while men are sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat, and went away,

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Context
The Parable of the Weeds
24Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away. 26When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.…

Cross References
Matthew 13:24
Jesus put before them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

Matthew 13:26
When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.

Matthew 13:27
The owner's servants came to him and said, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?'

Matthew 13:29
No,' he said, 'if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.

Matthew 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.'"


Treasury of Scripture

But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

men.

Matthew 25:5
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

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

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

enemy.

Matthew 13:39
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

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

1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

tares.

Matthew 13:38
The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

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Matthew 13
1. The parable of the sower and the seed;
18. the explanation of it.
24. The parable of the weeds;
31. of the mustard seed;
33. of the leaven;
36. explanation of the parable of the weeds.
44. The parable of the hidden treasure;
45. of the pearl;
47. of the drag net cast into the sea.
53. Jesus is a prophet without honor in his own country.














(25, 26) His enemy came and sowed tares.--The act described was then--and still is--a common form of Eastern malice or revenge. It easily escaped detection. It inflicted both loss and trouble. The "enemy" had the satisfaction of brooding for weeks or months over the prospect of the injury he had inflicted, and the vexation it would cause when discovered. The tares, known to botanists as the Lolium temulentum, or darnel, grew up at first with stalk and blade like the wheat; and it was not till fructification began that the difference was easily detected. It adds to the point of the parable to remember that the seeds of the tares were not merely useless as food, but were positively noxious.

Verse 25. - But while men slept. Not in the explanation. If more than merely a part of the necessary framework of the story, it points to the secrecy with which the devil works. His enemy came. This form of malice is still well known in the East (cf. Exell's 'Biblical Illustrator,' in loc.). And sowed. Sowed over or in (ἐπέσπειρεν). Tares; i.e. bearded darnel, Lolium temulentum, "a kind of rye grass, and the only species of the grass family the seeds of which are poisonous. The derivation of zauan [ζιζάνια] is from zan, 'vomiting,' the effect of eating darnel being to produce violent nausea, convulsions, and diarrhoea, which frequently ends in death" (Tristram, 'Nat. Hist. of Bible,' p. 487, edit. 1889). Among the wheat, and went his way; went away (Revised Version, ἀπῆλθεν).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
But
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

while
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

everyone
ἀνθρώπους (anthrōpous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.

was asleep,
καθεύδειν (katheudein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 2518: To sleep, be sleeping. From kata and heudo; to lie down to rest, i.e. to fall asleep.

his
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

enemy
ἐχθρὸς (echthros)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2190: Hated, hostile; subst: an enemy. From a primary echtho; hateful; usually as a noun, an adversary.

came
ἦλθεν (ēlthen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2064: To come, go.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

sowed
ἐπέσπειρεν (epespeiren)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4687: To sow, spread, scatter. Probably strengthened from spao; to scatter, i.e. Sow.

weeds
ζιζάνια (zizania)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 2215: Darnel or false grain.

among
ἀνὰ (ana)
Preposition
Strong's 303: A primary preposition and adverb; properly, up; but used severally, or at.

the
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

wheat,
σίτου (sitou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 4621: Wheat, grain. Also plural irregular neuter sita of uncertain derivation; grain, especially wheat.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

slipped away.
ἀπῆλθεν (apēlthen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 565: From apo and erchomai; to go off, aside or behind, literally or figuratively.


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