More Stories Told by the Sea
CHAPTER 35
HERE IS another parable story that Jesus told to the people as he sat in the boat and the people stood on the shore. This is the parable of "The Wheat and the Weeds."
"There was a man who sowed good wheat in his field; but while people were asleep, an enemy came and scattered the seed of weeds over all the ground. Then the enemy went away, leaving his seed to grow up. When the sprouts of grain began to form into heads of wheat, the men saw that everywhere in the field the weeds were among them, for weeds always grow faster than good seed.
"So the servants of the farmer came to him and said:
"'Did you not, sir, sow good seed in your field? How comes it that it is full of weeds?'
"He said to them, 'Some enemy of mine has done this.'
"'Shall we go,' said the servants, 'and pull up the weeds that are growing with the wheat?'