Elder Donald D. Deshler of the Seventy, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: We learn in this parable that God permits both wheat (the good crop) and tares (the weeds) to grow together ...

In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus tells the parable of a man sowing good seed in a field. In the night, an enemy sows tares (weeds) among the wheat, and the two kinds of plants grow up together. The farmer ...

Today’s Gospel featuring the Parable of the Wheat and Tares cautions against overzealousness in the attempt to root out sin and sinners from the Church. This does not mean that we are never to r ...

And again the small beginnings (in Jesus’ ministry) will produce great results. The longer parable of the wheat and the weeds resembles last Sunday’s parable of the sower in form and content.

Jesus explains the parable with the soil representing different ... in which the good seed is mixed with the bad, the wheat with the tares. Wheat and tares, especially in the early stages, look ...