Matthew 13:40-42

The Parable of the Weeds Explained

⁴⁰ Just as the weeds _o are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at _n the close of the age. ⁴¹ _p The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all _q causes of sin and _r all law-breakers, ⁴² _s and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place _t there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

1. Cross References
   John 15:6
   If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
   Matthew 3:12
   His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 13:39
   And the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.
   
3. Cross References
   Matthew 24:31
   And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
   
4. Cross References
   Matthew 18:7
   Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!
   Zephaniah 1:3
   I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, and the rubble with the wicked. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth," declares the Lord.
   
5. Cross References
   Matthew 7:23
   And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.
   
6. Cross References
   Matthew 13:50
   And throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
   Revelation 9:2
   He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.
   Revelation 19:20
   And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
   Revelation 20:10
   And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
   
7. Cross References
   Matthew 8:12
   While the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.