Jesus continues to tell a large crowd of people different parables that describe what the kingdom of God is like. ## Jesus presented another parable to them ## Jesus told another parable to the crowd of people. ## The kingdom of heaven is like a man ## The translation should not equate the kingdom of heaven to a man, but rather the kingdom of heaven is like the situation described in the parable (see UDB). ## good seed ## "good food seeds" or "good grain seeds." The audience probably thought that Jesus was talking about wheat. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]]) ## his enemy came ## "his enemy came to the field." ## weeds ## This can be translated "bad seed" or "weed seeds." These weeds look like food plants when they are young, but the grain is poison. ## When the blades sprouted ## "when the wheat seeds sprouted" or "when the plants came up" ## brought forth their crop ## "produced grain" or "produced the wheat crop" ## then the weeds appeared also ## Alternate translation: "then people could see that there were weeds in the field also."