Matthew 13:36-43
The Son of Man permits mixed growth until the end, then His angels gather out evil and the righteous shine in the Father’s kingdom.
36 Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”
37 He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
38 the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
40 As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,
42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
The Son of Man permits mixed growth until the end, then his angels gather out evil and the righteous shine in the Father’s kingdom.
Matthew records Jesus privately interpreting the parable of the wheat and weeds, revealing the Son of Man as sower, the world as the field, the sons of the kingdom and the sons of the evil one as the two crops, and the harvest as the end of the age when angels separate the wicked from the righteous.
Jesus moves from public teaching to private instruction in the house.
The Kingdom in Parables: Hearing, Hiddenness, Growth, Worth, and Judgment
The kingdom of heaven is revealed through the word, received by fruitful hearers, hidden from hardened hearts, growing amid opposition, worth everything, and moving toward final judgment under the authority of the Son of Man.