‘No,’ he answered, ‘because as you gather the weeds you might pull up some of the wheat along with them.
One night, when everyone was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.
‘It was some enemy who did this,’ he answered. ‘Do you want us to go and pull up the weeds?’ they asked him.
Let the wheat and the weeds both grow together until harvest. Then I will tell the harvest workers to pull up the weeds first, tie them in bundles and burn them, and then to gather in the wheat and put it in my barn.’”