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Explain the meaning of the parable of the wheat and the tares.

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The parable relates how servants eager to pull up the tares were warned that in so doing they would root out the wheat as well and were told to let both grow together until the harvest. ... A shorter, greatly compressed version of the parable is found without any interpretation in the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas.

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