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MATTHEW 13:39 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 13:38Matt 13:40
“The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.”
And the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. The identification of the enemy as the devil connects the parable to the story of the enemy's counter-sowing in the world. The end of the age harvest and the angel-reapers set the context: the separation of good from evil is an eschatological event, not a present-age human task.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:39

The Lord had spoken to the multitude in parables, that He might induce them to ask Him of their meaning; yet, though He had spoken so many things in parables, no man had yet asked Him aug ht, and therefore He sends them away; 'Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house.' None of the Scribes followed Him here, from is which it is clear that they followed Him for no other purpose than that they might catch Him in His discourse.

Chrysostom · 4th century

The Lord sends away the multitude, and enters the house that His disciples might come to Him and ask Him privately of those things which the people neither deserved to hear, nor were able.

Jerome · 4th century

Figuratively; Having sent away the multitude of unquiet Jews, He enters the Church of the Gentiles, and there expounds to believers heavenly sacraments, whence it follows, 'And his disciples came to him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.'

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century
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