“‘No,’ he replied, ‘you’ll uproot the wheat if you do.
But that night as the workers slept, his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat, then slipped away.
“‘An enemy has done this!’ the farmer exclaimed. “‘Should we pull out the weeds?’ they asked.
Let both grow together until the harvest. Then I will tell the harvesters to sort out the weeds, tie them into bundles, and burn them, and to put the wheat in the barn.’”