24 Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,
25 and, while men are sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat, and went away,
26 and when the herb sprang up, and yielded fruit, then appeared also the darnel.
27 'And the servants of the householder, having come near, said to him, Sir, good seed did you not sow in your field? Why then has it the darnel?
28 And he said to them, A man, an enemy, did this; and the servants said to him, Will you, then,that having gone away we may gather it up?
29 'And he said, No, lest -- gathering up the darnel -- you root up with it the wheat,
30 permit both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.'