else to collect the weeds out from the wheat. Then the weeds will be bundled together and burned, while the wheat will be stored in the granary. Given the evident structure that emphasizes the master’s declaration that things will not be changed until the later harvest, the crowds can reasonably be thought to have heard at least these two things: First, the introduction declares that this is a little story about what it is like now that God has begun to restore his royal rule in the present time