What Does Matthew 13:25 Mean in the King James?
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The enemy plants a rival seed beside the wheat while the field sleeps, so danger can grow inside what appears to be one crop.
THE MEANING
In your life, good growth can stand beside what is destructive without sharing its source. Harm may enter unseen while attention is absent, then keep growing after its planter has disappeared. Sharing a field does not make its plants kin.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Whatever harmful thing grows in your field must have been planted by you.
THE ROOT
ἐπέσπειρεν
epespeiren from speirō
GROWS FROM
σπειρ-
speir-
To sow or scatter seed.
“sowed” in this verse is epespeiren from speirō. This word family links sowing with seed or offspring and with scattering abroad. Greek keeps the act, what it plants, and its dispersal in one verbal kinship: the enemy’s work is a rival origin multiplying within the same field.
ALSO GROWS
sperma: Seed; offspring.
σπέρμα
The seed is the living result of sowing, so the tares are more than a passing intrusion: they are growth from a different source.
diaspeirō: To scatter abroad; to sow widely.
διασπείρω
This branch carries sowing outward, revealing how one planting can spread beyond the moment it begins.
THE PATTERN
A shared field can hold growth from opposed sources, whose origins become visible in what they produce.
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.THE THREAD
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.The next verse names the hidden planter and repeats the same Greek sowing verb, ἐπέσπειρεν (epespeiren). The mixed growth has a source: the tares are deliberately planted by the enemy among the wheat.
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