He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
He told them, 'An enemy did this.' The workers asked him, 'Do you want us to go pull up all the weeds?'
Sometimes the damage we see around us isn't random, there's an enemy at work.
📚 Historical Context
In the Parable of the Weeds found in Matthew 13, Jesus describes a farmer who plants good wheat seeds in his field, only for an enemy to sabotage the crop by sowing weeds among them overnight. This story was told during Jesus' ministry in ancient Galilee, as part of his teachings on the kingdom of heaven, highlighting how evil infiltrates the world and coexists with good until the time of judgment. The servants' question in this verse reflects the immediate human impulse to address wrongdoing, but it sets up Jesus' later explanation that premature action could harm the good wheat.
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