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Matthew 13:39

and the one who scattered them is the devil. The harvest is the end of time, and angels are the ones who bring in the harvest.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Angel (a Spirit);   Gospel;   Harvest;   Hell;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Kingdom of Heaven;   Satan;   Sermon;   Sin;   Tares;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   Kingdom;   Parables;   Thompson Chain Reference - Adversary;   Angel;   Earth;   End of the World;   Reapers, Angel;   Satan;   Satan's;   Satan-Evil Spirits;   Serpent;   Tempter;   Work, Satan's;   World, the;   The Topic Concordance - Devil/devils;   End of the World;   Harvest;   Hell;   Jesus Christ;   Kingdom of God;   Separation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Angels;   Harvest, the;   Parables;   Reaping;   Titles and Names of the Devil;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Parable;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Angels;   Enemy;   Kingdom of god;   Mystery;   Parables;   Satan;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Age, Ages;   Apocalyptic;   Harvest;   Jesus Christ;   Last Day(s), Latter Days, Last Times;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Angel;   Church;   Hutchinsonians;   Hypocrisy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Angels;   Church;   Satan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Allegory;   Harvest;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   New Age;   Parables;   Reap;   Tares;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel;   Devil;   Evil;   Judgment;   Mss;   Restoration;   Text of the New Testament;   World;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Aeon;   Allegory;   Angels;   Angels (2);   Antichrist ;   Day of Judgment;   Discourse;   Endurance;   Enemies ;   Eschatology (2);   Eternity;   Excommunication;   Excommunication (2);   Fulfilment;   God (2);   Harvest ;   Immortality (2);   Judgment;   Lord's Prayer (I);   Lord's Prayer (Ii);   Parable;   Progress;   Quotations (2);   Satan (2);   Science (2);   Separation;   Tares ;   Unpardonable Sin;   Vine, Allegory of the;   Wicked (2);   World ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Age,;   Harvest;   Sower, Sowing;   Tares,;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Tares;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Angel;   Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Harvest;   Jesus christ;   Kingdom of christ of heaven;   Kingdom of god;   Kingdom of heaven;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Angels;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Harvest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Twelve Apostles, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Antichrist;   End;   Eschatology of the New Testament;   Harvest;   Man of Sin;   Millennium: Premillennial View;   Satan;   World (Cosmological);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eschatology;   New Testament;   Satan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
King James Version (1611)
The enemie that sowed them, is the deuill. The haruest, is the ende of the world. And the reapers are the Angels.
King James Version
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
English Standard Version
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
New American Standard Bible
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.
New Century Version
And the enemy who planted the bad seed is the devil. The harvest time is the end of the age, and the workers who gather are God's angels.
Amplified Bible
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the enemie that soweth them, is the deuill, and the haruest is the end of the worlde, and the reapers be the Angels.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.
Legacy Standard Bible
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.
Berean Standard Bible
and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
Complete Jewish Bible
The enemy who sows them is the Adversary, the harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
Darby Translation
and the enemy who has sowed it is the devil; and the harvest is [the] completion of [the] age, and the harvestmen are angels.
Easy-to-Read Version
And the enemy who planted the bad seed is the devil. The harvest is the end of time. And the workers who gather are God's angels.
George Lamsa Translation
The enemy who sowed them is Satan; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Good News Translation
and the enemy who sowed the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvest workers are angels.
Lexham English Bible
And the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Literal Translation
And the hostile one who sowed them is the Devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the angels are the reapers.
American Standard Version
and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.
Bible in Basic English
And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.
Hebrew Names Version
The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
International Standard Version
The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.Joel 3:13; Revelation 14:15;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
The adversary who sowed them is Satana; the harvest is the consummation of the world; the reapers are the angels.
Murdock Translation
The enemy that sowed them, is Satan. The harvest is the end of the world: and the reapers are the angels.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The enemie that soweth them, is the deuyll: the haruest, is the ende of the worlde: the reapers, be the Angels.
English Revised Version
and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.
World English Bible
The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The enemy that sowed them is the devil: the harvest is the end of the world; the reapers are the angels.
Weymouth's New Testament
The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the enemye that sowith hem is the feend; and the ripe corn is the endyng of the world, the reperis ben aungels.
Update Bible Version
and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.
Webster's Bible Translation
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
New English Translation
and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
New King James Version
The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.
New Living Translation
The enemy who planted the weeds among the wheat is the devil. The harvest is the end of the world, and the harvesters are the angels.
New Life Bible
The devil is the one who got in and planted the weeds. The time to gather is the end of the world. The men who gather are the angels.
New Revised Standard
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the enemy that sowed them, is the adversary, and, the harvest, is, the conclusion of an age, and, the reapers, are, messengers.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels.
Revised Standard Version
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And the enemye that soweth the is ye devell. The harvest is ye end of the worlde. And the repers be ye angels.
Young's Literal Translation
and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is a full end of the age, and the reapers are messengers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
ye enemye that soweth the, is the deuell: ye haruest is the ende of the worlde: ye reapers are ye angels.
Mace New Testament (1729)
the enemy that sowed them is the devil: the harvest is the conclusion of the age: and the reapers are the angels.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The enemy who put the cull bull in the pasture is the Devil, or you might know him as Slick, or the Counterfeit one. Shippin' season is when this old world will end. The sorters will be the angels.

Contextual Overview

24 Jesus then told them this story: The kingdom of heaven is like what happened when a farmer scattered good seed in a field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and scattered weed seeds in the field and then left. 26 When the plants came up and began to ripen, the farmer's servants could see the weeds. 27 The servants came and asked, "Sir, didn't you scatter good seed in your field? Where did these weeds come from?" 28 "An enemy did this," he replied. His servants then asked, "Do you want us to go out and pull up the weeds?" 29 "No!" he answered. "You might also pull up the wheat. 30 Leave the weeds alone until harvest time. Then I'll tell my workers to gather the weeds and tie them up and burn them. But I'll have them store the wheat in my barn." 31 Jesus told them another story: The kingdom of heaven is like what happens when a farmer plants a mustard seed in a field. 32 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, it grows larger than any garden plant and becomes a tree. Birds even come and nest on its branches. 33 Jesus also said: The kingdom of heaven is like what happens when a woman mixes a little yeast into three big batches of flour. Finally, all the dough rises.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

enemy: Matthew 13:25, Matthew 13:28, 2 Corinthians 2:17, 2 Corinthians 11:3, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, Ephesians 2:2, Ephesians 6:11, Ephesians 6:12, 2 Thessalonians 2:8-11, 1 Peter 5:8, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 13:14, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:2, Revelation 20:3, Revelation 20:7-10

harvest: Matthew 13:49, Matthew 24:3, Joel 3:13, Revelation 14:15-19

reapers: Matthew 25:31, Daniel 7:10, 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10, Jude 1:14

Reciprocal: Isaiah 17:5 - as when Jeremiah 51:33 - the time Matthew 13:30 - both Matthew 20:8 - when Matthew 28:20 - unto Mark 14:22 - this 1 Corinthians 10:4 - that Rock 1 Corinthians 10:10 - destroyer 1 Corinthians 15:24 - cometh

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The enemy that sowed them is the devil,.... He that is designed by the enemy, who sowed the tares in the field among the wheat, is no other than the devil; the enemy of Christ, of mankind in general, of God's elect in particular, and the accuser of the brethren; and his getting of hypocrites and heretics into churches, is no small proof of his implacable enmity to Christ and his interest; and shows what an adversary he is to the peace, comfort, and fruitfulness of the churches of Christ.

The harvest is the end of the world; that which is meant by "the harvest", until which time wheat and tares, good and bad men, under a profession of religion, are to be together, is "the end of the world"; meaning either the day of wrath and vengeance upon the Jewish nation; when those that truly believed in Christ were separated from the rest, and that hypocritical generation of men were utterly destroyed; or else the day of judgment, the great and last day, when the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall be burnt up; when the righteous will enter into life, and the wicked go into everlasting punishment:

and the reapers are the angels; the persons signified by "the reapers", who shall put in the sickle, cut down the tares, bind them in bundles, and cast them into the fire, and who shall gather the wheat into the barn; that is, who shall be the executors of God's wrath, upon wicked professors of religion, and who shall be the means of introducing the saints into the heavenly kingdom, are "the angels"; the holy and elect angels, who are the ministers of Christ, and ministering servants to them, who are the heirs of salvation; and are opposite to all secret and open enemies of Christ and his people; and will be employed in the end of time, against the wicked, and for the righteous.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Declare unto us - That is, explain the meaning of the parable. This was done in so plain a manner as to render comment unnecessary. The Son of man, the Lord Jesus, sows the good seed - that is, preaches the gospel. This he did personally, and does now by his ministers, his providence, and his Spirit, by all the means of conveying “truth” to the mind. This seed was, by various means, to be carried over all the world. It was to be confined to no particular nation or people. The good seed was the children of the kingdom; that is, of the kingdom of God, or Christians. For these the Saviour toiled and died. They are the fruit of his labors. Yet amid them were wicked people; and all hypocrites and unbelievers in the church are the work of Satan. Yet they must remain together until the end, when they shall be separated, and the righteous saved and the wicked lost. The one shall shine clear as the sun, the other be cast into a furnace of fire - a most expressive image of suffering.

We have no idea of more acute suffering than to be thrown into the fire, and to have our bodies made capable of bearing the burning heat, and living on m this burning heat forever and forever. It is not certain that our Saviour meant to teach here that hell is made up of “material” fire; but it is certain that he meant to teach that this would be a proper “representation” of the sufferings of the lost. We may be further assured that the Redeemer would not deceive us, or use words to torment and tantalize us. He would not talk of hell-fire which had no existence, nor would the Saviour of people hold out frightful images merely to terrify mankind. If he has spoken of hell, then there is a hell. If he meant to say that the wicked shall suffer, then they will suffer. If he did not mean to deceive mankind, then there is a hell, and then the wicked will be punished. The impenitent, therefore, should be alarmed. And the righteous, however much wickedness they may see, and however many hypocrites there may be in the church, should be cheered with the prospect that soon the just will be separated from the unjust, and that they shall shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.


 
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