29 ‘“No,” he answered, “because while you are pulling up the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: first collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.”’

The parables of the mustard seed and the yeast

31 He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.

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