Matthew 13:25 Parallel Translations
NASB: "But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: But while people were asleep, his enemy planted weeds in the wheat field and went away.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
ASV: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.
BBE: But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away.
DBY: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel amongst the wheat, and went away.
ERV: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.
WEY: but during the night his enemy comes, and over the first seed he sows darnel among the wheat, and goes away.
WBS: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and departed.
WEB: but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
YLT: and, while men are sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat, and went away,
Matthew 13:25 Cross References
XREF:Matthew 13:24 Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.

Matthew 13:26 "But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
PNT: 13:25 But while men slept. During sleep is the time of the tare-sowing.
His enemy came and sowed. It is by no means uncommon for the malice in the East to show itself in this way. A wicked person may do great injury with little chance of detection.
Tares. The tare or darnel is, like our chess or cheat, a kind of bastard wheat, looking like wheat.
WES: 13:25 But while men slept - They ought to have watched: the Lord of the field sleepeth not. His enemy came and sowed darnel - This is very like wheat, and commonly grows among wheat rather than among other grain: but tares or vetches are of the pulse kind, and bear no resemblance to wheat.
MHC: 13:24-30, 36-43 This parable represents the present and future state of the gospel church; Christ's care of it, the devil's enmity against it, the mixture there is in it of good and bad in this world, and the separation between them in the other world. So prone is fallen man to sin, that if the enemy sow the tares, he may go his way, they will spring up, and do hurt; whereas, when good seed is sown, it must be tended, watered, and fenced. The servants complained to their master; Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? No doubt he did; whatever is amiss in the church, we are sure it is not from Christ. Though gross transgressors, and such as openly oppose the gospel, ought to be separated from the society of the faithful, yet no human skill can make an exact separation. Those who oppose must not be cut off, but instructed, and that with meekness. And though good and bad are together in this world, yet at the great day they shall be parted; then the righteous and the wicked shall be plainly known; here sometimes it is hard to distinguish between them. Let us, knowing the terrors of the Lord, not do iniquity. At death, believers shall shine forth to themselves; at the great day they shall shine forth before all the world. They shall shine by reflection, with light borrowed from the Fountain of light. Their sanctification will be made perfect, and their justification published. May we be found of that happy number.
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