Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers: first gather the weeds and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn. The harvest as the time of separation — and the sequence of the separation: weeds first (gathered and burned), wheat second (gathered into the barn). The sequence communicates the priority of judgment before the full reception of the righteous into the kingdom. Matthew 13:40–43 will explain the harvest in terms of the end of the age and the angels as reapers.

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