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²⁴耶穌給他們另設了一個比喻說：「天國好像一個人，在自己田裡撒了好種子；

²⁴Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seeds in his field.

²⁵但在人睡覺的時候，他的仇人來，在麥子中間撒上莠子，就走了。

²⁵But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.

²⁶苗長起來，抽出穗的時候，莠子也顯出來了。

²⁶And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle.

²⁷家主的僕人，就前來對他說：主人！你不是在你田地裡撒了好種子嗎？那麼從那裡來了莠子？

²⁷And the servants of the goodman of the house coming said to him: Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it cockle?

²⁸家主對他們說：這是仇人做的。僕人對他說：那麼，你願我們去把莠子收集起來嗎？

²⁸And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up?

²⁹他卻說：不，免得你們收集莠子，連麥子也拔了出來。

²⁹And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it.

³⁰讓兩樣一起長到收割的時候好了；在收割時，我要對收割的人說：你們先收集莠子，把莠子捆成捆，好燃燒，把麥子卻收入我的倉裡。」

³⁰Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.