Matthew 13:26 - Plain English Version

²⁶ The good seeds grew into good plants, but at the same time the rubbish plants started to grow there too. Those rubbish plants look like the good plants when they are young, but when they get big we can’t eat their seeds. They are too cheeky.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ So when the plants sprouted and formed grain, the darnel (weeds) appeared also.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²⁶ When the stalks sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And when the plants had grown, and had produced fruit, then the weeds also appeared.

Matthew 13:26 Cross References

Matthew 13:25

But there was a bad man that didn’t like that farmer. One night, when everyone was asleep, that bad man went to the farmer’s garden and planted some rubbish plant seeds in it, beside the good seeds. Then that bad man went away.

Matthew 13:27

So the farmer’s workers went to him and said, ‘Boss, you planted good food seeds in that ground. How come a lot of rubbish plants are growing there too?’