Saying 57: The Wheat and the Weeds
A man sowed good seed; his enemy sowed weeds among it at night. He would not let his workers pull the weeds in case the wheat came up with them — at harvest the weeds will be obvious, and will be pulled and burned.
Commentary
One of the very few places where Thomas preserves a judgement scene. Matthew supplies an elaborate allegorical decoding afterwards; Thomas, characteristically, does not.
Parallels
Matthew 13:24–30
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