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Andδὲheὁsaidἔφηto them,αὐτοῖς‘An enemyἘχθρὸς ἄνθρωποςhas doneἐποίησενthis.’τοῦτοAndδὲthe slavesοἱ δοῦλοιsayλέγουσινto him,αὐτῷ‘Thenοὖνdo you wantΘέλειςus to goἀπελθόντεςand gatherσυλλέξωμενthem?’αὐτά
Matthew 13:28
Study it in the app“And he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ And the slaves say to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’”
Wheat and weeds grow together until the harvestThe Kingdom of God
With the Greek beneath
Matthew 13:28, word by word
- saidἔφηephē
say
Say.
Where else “ephē” appears- ‘An enemyἘχθρὸςEchthros
enemy
Someone who hates another or wars against them.
Where else “Echthros” appears- ‘An enemyἄνθρωποςanthrōpos
someone
Any person, without saying who, as in the parables.
Where else “anthrōpos” appears- has doneἐποίησενepoiēsen
do
To carry out an action or cause an effect.
Where else “epoiēsen” appears- the slavesδοῦλοιdouloi
slave
A person who belongs to a master and serves him.
Where else “douloi” appears- sayλέγουσινlegousin
say
To express something in words to others.
Where else “legousin” appears- do you wantΘέλειςTheleis
want
To have the desire or the resolve for something.
Where else “Theleis” appears- us to goἀπελθόντεςapelthontes
go away
To leave where one is for another place, leaving something or someone behind.
Where else “apelthontes” appears- and gatherσυλλέξωμενsyllexōmen
gather, collect
Gather, collect, pick up.
Where else “syllexōmen” appears
The context
27And the slaves of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where does it get darnel?’
28 · This verse (above)
29But he says, ‘No, so that while gathering the darnel you do not uproot the wheat along with them.
To study Matthew 13 in a group
1. What it says
On which four kinds of ground did the sower's seed fall (vv. 4–8)?
2. What it means
Why did Jesus teach the crowds in parables (vv. 10–13)?
3. How I live it
In the sower's parable, worry can choke the word (v. 22). What chokes it most in your day?