39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. And the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the messengers.
40 “As the darnel, then, is gathered and burned in the fire, so it shall be at the end of this age.
41 “The Son of Aḏam shall send out His messengers, and they shall gather out of His reign all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing lawlessness,
42 and shall throw them into the furnace of fire – there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43 “Then the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the reign of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
44 “Again, the reign of the heavens is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man having found it, hid, and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
45 “Again, the reign of the heavens is like a man, a merchant, seeking fine pearls,