And the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels.
In this saying, Jesus explains the symbols of the parable, showing how evil penetrates the world by opposing God’s good work. The enemy is Satan, who deliberately sows evil among people and through them tries to undermine the work of God’s kingdom alongside the good seed, that is, the sons of the kingdom. Jesus makes it clear that the presence of evil is temporary and is permitted until the end of the world. The harvest symbolizes the final judgment, when good and evil will be separated once and for all, and each person will receive repayment according to his deeds. The reapers, the angels, are God’s agents who, by His will, will carry out the separation and establish God’s righteous judgment. This saying emphasizes that the simultaneous existence of good and evil is not accidental, but is part of God’s great and wise plan, at the end of which justice will inevitably triumph.