• The original force of this parable is probably similar in part to that of the parable of the sower:  carry on your work faithfully in spite of mixed results.  It is a word of encouragement, only in this case based, not on the astonishing results, but on the promise that God will evaluate the results in the judgment.


- Howard Clark Kee, Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary: Matthew, p. 625
 

• There is not meant to be an exact comparison of the kingdom and the man, but a comparable situation.


- R.E. Nixon, New Bible Commentary, Revised (1970):  Matthew, p. 834
 

• Jesus is criticized by his purist contemporaries for inviting the outcast to eat with him as an anticipation of God's salvation.  He answers by saying that it is for God to make the separation and that he will do so only at the end.  Then it will be clear who are the wheat and who are the tares.  Doubtless there will be some surprises in store.


- Fuller, Reginald H., Preaching the Lectionary, p. 149
 

• For Jesus, it was the outcast and the authorities of his people.  For the Church tradition, it was the good and the bad within the Christian community.  For the evangelist, it was non-believing Israel and the members of his Church.


- Fuller, Reginald H., Preaching the Lectionary, p. 149
 

• Let us from this parable understand the divine government, and never wonder at the sparing or even the prosperity of the wicked.  This is the season of probation, but the day of judgment will show a different state of things.


- D.D. Whedon, Commentary on the Gospels, Vol. I:  Matthew-Mark, p. 170
 

• "Christ, 'holy, innocent, and undefiled,' knew nothing of sin, but came only to expiate the sins of the people. The Church, however, clasping sinners to her bosom, at once holy and always in need of purification, follows constantly the path of penance and renewal."  All members of the Church, including her ministers, must acknowledge that they are sinners.  In everyone, the weeds of sin will still be mixed with the good wheat of the Gospel until the end of time.  Hence the Church gathers sinners already caught up in Christ's salvation but still on the way to holiness:

The Church is therefore holy, though having sinners in her midst, because she herself has no other life but the life of grace. If they live her life, her members are sanctified; if they move away from her life, they fall into sins and disorders that prevent the radiation of her sanctity. This is why she suffers and does penance for those offenses, of which she has the power to free her children through the blood of Christ and the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Paul VI, CPG § 19)
-  Catechism of the Catholic Church, (Missouri: Liguori, 1994)  ¶827
 

• False doctrines are against God-he alone is the judge and punisher of them-man has no right to interfere in this matter.


- Clarke, Adam, Adam Clarke's Commentary, Matthew 13:30
 

•  Harvest; the day of judgment. Reapers; the angels. Tares; the wicked. Wheat; the righteous.


- Family Bible Notes, Matthew 17:2
 

• Christ, as the Judge, will separate the two classes (as in Mt 25:32). It will be observed that the tares are burned before the wheat is housed; in the exposition of the parable (Mt 13:41,43) the same order is observed: and the same in Mt 25:46 --as if, in some literal sense, "with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked" (Ps 91:8).


- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary, Matthew 13:30
 

• The time of separation will come at last. The righteous shall not always be vexed by the presence and deeds of evil doers. Harvest time will come, and that is the time of separation. The tares, ripened and manifest, can easily be sifted out from the wheat.


- People's New Testament Commentary, Matthew 13:30
 

• Suffer the two seeds to remain together for a season, that they may be the more effectually separated later on. It is true the evil will hinder and hamper the good; but even this will be better than that you should cast out the good by mistake. A separation time will come, and that will be "in the time of harvest" when both will be fully developed. That will be a fit

season, when the division can be made and no harm done thereby The reapers then employed will do the work correctly, efficiently, universally, and finally. For the false wheat there will be burning in bundles; for the true, ingathering into the Lord's own storehouse. This will be a perfect separation, and we are bidden to wait for it. Our Lord's "I will say to the reapers" may very well keep us from making any hasty speeches to the elders of the churches, or to the magistrates of the land, so as to excite them to hurried and ungenerous discipline. Thorns and thistles they can root up, but the darnel is another matter. Magistrates and churches may remove the openly wicked from their society; the outwardly good who are inwardly worthless they must leave; for the judging of hearts is beyond their sphere.
- Spurgeon, C.H., Spurgeon's Commentary on Matthew, Matthew 13:23
 

• They would not spoil the true wheat; and in time of harvest it would be easy to separate them. Our Saviour teaches us here,


 

(1.) that hypocrites and deceived persons must be expected in the church.

(2.) That this is the work of the enemy of man. They are not the work of Christianity, any more than traitors are of patriotism, or counterfeiters are of the proper effect of legislating about money. They belong to the world; and hypocrisy is only one form of sin. The Christian religion never made a hypocrite; nor is there a hypocrite on the face of the earth whose principles and practice it does not condemn.

(3.) That all hope of removing them entirely would be vain.

(4.) That an attempt to remove them altogether would injure real Christianity, by causing excitements, discord, and hard feelings even among Christians.

(5.) That he will himself separate them at the proper time. There is no doubt that it is the duty of the church to attempt to keep itself pure, and to cut off gross and manifest offends, 1Co 5:4,5. He refers to those who may be suspected of hypocrisy, but against whom it cannot be proved; to those who so successfully imitate Christians as to make it difficult or impossible for man to distinguish them.

{s} "time of harvest" 1Ti 5:24
{t} "to burn them" Mal 4:1
{u} "wheat into my barn" Lu 3:17
- Barnes, Albert, New Testament Commentary, Matthew 13:30

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Genesis 28:10-19a 10   And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 11   And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12   And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 13   And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14   And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15   And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. 16   And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. 17   And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. 18   And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19   And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.   Romans 8:12-25 12   Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13   For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14   For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15   For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16   The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17   And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18   For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19   For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20   For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21   Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22   For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23   And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24   For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25   But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.     Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24 1   O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2   Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3   Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 4   For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. 5   Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 6   Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. 7   Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8   If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 9   If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10   Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. 11   If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12   Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. 23   Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24   And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.         Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 24   Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25   But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26   But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27   So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28   He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29   But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30   Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. 36   Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. 37   He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; 38   The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39   The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40   As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41   The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42   And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43   Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. 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