"No!" he answered. "You might also pull up the wheat.
But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and scattered weed seeds in the field and then left.
"An enemy did this," he replied. His servants then asked, "Do you want us to go out and pull up the weeds?"
Leave the weeds alone until harvest time. Then I'll tell my workers to gather the weeds and tie them up and burn them. But I'll have them store the wheat in my barn."