In the parable of the wheat and the tares, found in Matthew 13, it describes two opposing harvests that are growing together: a wheat harvest and a harvest of tares.Tares closely resemble wheat but are poisonous to human beings. They are indistinguishable from wheat until the final fruit appears. Farmers would weed out tares just before the wheat harvest.This parable is about a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went…
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