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What does Matthew 13:36 mean?

"Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”"

— Matthew 13:36 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”

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Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,

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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

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Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”

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He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

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the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

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The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

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