‘No,’ he answered, ‘as you pull up the weeds, you might uproot the wheat too.
But while his workers were sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weed seeds on top of the wheat. Then they left.
‘Some enemy has done this,’ he replied. ‘Do you want us to go and pull up the weeds?’ they asked him.
Let them both grow until harvest, and then at harvest-time I'll tell the reapers to first gather the weeds, tie them up into bundles and burn them, and then gather the wheat and store it in my barn.’”