Matthew 13:47-50
The kingdom net gathers widely, but the end of the age brings final separation.
47 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,
48 which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.
49 So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
50 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”
The kingdom net gathers widely, but the end of the age brings final separation.
Matthew records Jesus comparing the kingdom of heaven to a dragnet that gathers all kinds of fish, then teaches that at the end of the age angels will separate the wicked from the righteous and cast the wicked into fiery judgment.
Jesus continues teaching in the Matthew 13 parables discourse, likely still in the private-disciple section following verse 36.
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.