All of the Bible is inspired. But just as some parts of a turkey have more meat on them, so some parts of the Bible are meatier than others. For example, the genealogies of Leviticus versus the Sermon on the Mount.

Matthew 13 is one of the meatier portions of the scriptures. It is unique as an identifiable sermon of Christ Jesus, a series of seven, maybe eight parables that seem to be prophetic, to foretell the history of ministry ahead of time.

The parable of the wheat and the tares is the second in Jesus' sermon. Let's look at it now.

Two Sowers

Jesus tells of two sowers, "a man who sowed good seed in his field" (v. 24) whom he interprets for us as "the son of man" (v. 37). And "while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat" (v. 25) whom Christ interprets fo…