29 But he said, “No, lest when you[a] gather the darnel you uproot the wheat together with it. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the season of the harvest I will tell the reapers, “First gather the darnel and tie it into bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my storehouse.”’”

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

31 He put before them another parable, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and[b] sowed in his field.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:29 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“gather”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 13:31 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“took”) has been translated as a finite verb