Matthew 13:28 Parallel Translations

"He told them, 'An enemy did this.' "His workers asked him, 'Do you want us to pull out the weeds?'(GOD'S WORD®)

He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this. And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

BBE:

And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up?

DBY:

And he said to them, A man that is an enemy has done this. And the bondmen said to him, Wilt thou then that we should go and gather it up?

ERV:

And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this. And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

WEY:

"'Some enemy has done this,' he said. "'Shall we go, and collect it?' the men inquire.

WBS:

He said to them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said to him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them?

WEB:

"He said to them,'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him,'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'

YLT:

And he saith to them, A man, an enemy, did this; and the servants said to him, Wilt thou, then, that having gone away we may gather it up?

Matthew 13:28 Cross References

XREF:

Matthew 13:27 "The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?'

Matthew 13:29 "But he said, 'No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

13:28 An enemy hath done this. The great enemy, the prince of the world, who sows evil seed in human hearts.
Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? It has been assumed by one class of interpreters that this a question whether discipline shall be administered upon recreant church members. If the field in which the tares are growing with the wheat is the world, then it refers to something quite different.

WES:

13:28 He said, An enemy hath done this - A plain answer to the great question concerning the origin of evil. God made men (as he did angels) intelligent creatures, and consequently free either to choose good or evil: but he implanted no evil in the human soul: An enemy (with man's concurrence) hath done this. Darnel, in the Church, is properly outside Christians, such as have the form of godliness, without the power. Open sinners, such as have neither the form nor the power, are not so properly darnel, as thistles and brambles: these ought to be rooted up without delay, and not suffered in the Christian community. Whereas should fallible men attempt to gather up the darnel, they would often root up the wheat with them.

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.

CONC:

Bondmen Collect Enemy Gather Hate Inquire Pleasure Pull Replied Servants Slaves Someone Wilt

An Bondmen Collect Enemy Gather Hate Inquire Pleasure Pull Servants Slaves Someone Want Wilt

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