Bible verse
But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
Matthew 13:25 · BSB
The verses around it, from Matthew 13.
21 But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
22 The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
23 But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
24 Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
25 But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
26 When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
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?’
28 ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
29 ‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.
KJV
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
ASV
but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.
ERV
but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.
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