Matthew 13 · Verse 26

Matthew 13:26

But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
Matthew 13:26, King James Version

Matthew 13:26 in other translations

BSBWhen the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
WEBBut when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
ASVBut when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
YLTand when the herb sprang up, and yielded fruit, then appeared also the darnel.
DARBYBut when the blade shot up and produced fruit, then appeared the darnel also.
BBEBut when the green stem came up and gave fruit, the evil plants were seen at the same time.
WebsterBut when the blade had sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

What does Matthew 13:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
26. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also--the growth in both cases running parallel, as antagonistic principles are seen to do.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes
Verse 26. Then appeared the tares also. That is, then was first discovered the tares. They had grown with the wheat, but so much like it as not to be noticed, till the wheat began to ripen. So, true piety and false hopes are not known by professions, by "blades," and leaves, and flowers, but by the fruit.

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 26 When the blade was sprung up - then appeared the tares also - Satan has a shoot of iniquity for every shoot of grace; and, when God revives his work, Satan revives his also. No marvel, therefore, if we find scandals arising suddenly to discredit a work of grace, where God has begun to pour out his Spirit.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 13:24-30

, 36-43 This parable represents the present and future state of the gospel church; Christ's care of it, the devil's enmity against it, the mixture there is in it of good and bad in this world, and the separation between them in the other world. So prone is fallen man to sin, that if the enemy sow the tares, he may go his way, they will spring up, and do hurt; whereas, when good seed is sown, it must be tended…

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Matthew 13:26 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ὅτεhoteWhenG3753
δὲdenowG1161
ἐβλάστησενeblastēsensproutedG985
ὁhotheG3588
χόρτοςchortosplantsG5528
καὶkaiandG2532
καρπὸνkarponfruitG2590
ἐποίησεν,epoiēsenproduced,G4160
τότεtotethenG5119
ἐφάνηephanēappearedG5316
καὶkaialsoG2532
τὰtatheG3588
ζιζάνια.zizaniaweeds.G2215

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Matthew 13:26

  • Mark 4:26-29

    And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Mr 4:26-29

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Matthew 13:25

    But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

  • Matthew 13:26

    But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

  • Matthew 13:27

    So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

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Matthew 13:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y como la hierba salió é hizo fruto, entonces apareció también la cizaña.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et lorsque la tige monta et produisit du fruit, alors l’ivraie aussi parut.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Als aber die Saat aufsproßte und Frucht brachte, da erschien auch das Unkraut.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Cum autem crevisset herba, et fructum fecisset, tunc apparuerunt et zizania.