602nd Post Jesus Said Concerning Parables Con't. - Parables About the End of the Age Con't. - Parable of The Wheat and the Tares Con't. Matthew 13: 24 - 30 - 1st Post.

Parable About the Wheat and the Tares Matthew 13: 24 - 30 Continued 1st Post.
The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.  But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.  So the servants of the owner came and said to him, "Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field?  How then does it have tares?"  He said to them, "An enemy has done this."  The servants said to him, "Do you want us then to go and gather up them up?"  "No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.  Let both grow together until harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.'"
This was spoken by Jesus about 1.1/2 - 2 years into His earthly Ministry.  Jesus explains this parable in the next part of this section on the End of the Age.  I will comment on this though.  The kingdom of heaven in this parable is the world, or groups of Christians, that made the decision to follow Christ.
The believer's are the wheat, the tares are the unbeliever's, that mix with the believer's.  At first, you can not tell the bad from the good, but as both mature, it is easier to see.  Sometimes the unbeliever's will create more of a disturbance when they are found out and tried to get rid of, and the disturbance created may cause some of the wheat to be taken also.  Notice the tares are harvested first.  I will have more to say on this after we look at Jesus' explanation of the "Wheat and Tares".