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35 So what God's prophet had said long ago now became true:

‘I will use stories when I speak to them.
And I will teach them secret things.
People have never learned these things before, since the world began.’[a]

Jesus explains the story about the weeds

36 Then Jesus told the crowds of people to go away. He went into the house where he was staying. His disciples also went into the house with him. They said to him, ‘Explain to us the story about the weeds that were growing in the field.’

37 Jesus replied, ‘The Son of Man is like the farmer who planted the good seed in the field.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:35 See Psalms 78:2.