Catholic Public Domain Version
"And he said to them, ‘A man who is an enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Is it your will that we should go and gather them up?’ "
— Matthew 13:28, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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? ”
“"He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'”
“He said,‘An enemy has done this!’ So the slaves replied,‘Do you want us to go and gather it?’”
“And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up?”
“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?”
“He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?”
But while the men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds amid the wheat, and then went away.
And when the plants had grown, and had produced fruit, then the weeds also appeared.
So the servants of the Father of the family, approaching, said to him: ‘Lord, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then how is it that it has weeds?’
And he said to them, ‘A man who is an enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Is it your will that we should go and gather them up?’
And he said: ‘No, lest perhaps in gathering the weeds, you might also root out the wheat together with it.
Permit both to grow until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest, I will say to the reapers: Gather first the weeds, and bind them into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather into my storehouse.’ ”
He proposed another parable to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field.