“a poisonous weed organically related to wheat, and difficulty to distinguish from wheat in the early stages of the growth,” writes New Testament scholar Craig Keener. In the Bible, wheat is ...

Alfred Stelzer, of Ecclesia of Sinai, says the farm “made a covenant” to follow the Bible ... the weeds pose a risk to their crops if they aren’t contained. Growers of certified wheat ...

It contains two short parables—about a mustard seed and yeast—and a long parable with an allegorical interpretation—about the wheat and the weeds. All three parables explicitly propose to ...