When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad. The sorting after the net is drawn ashore is the parable's equivalent of the harvest-time separation in the weeds parable: the angels who separate the righteous from the wicked at the end of the age are doing what the fishermen do when they sort the catch. The sorting is deferred to the end; the net's present function is to gather everything.

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