To grasp the full meaning of today's Gospel passage, we have to read the parable in Mt 13:24-30, on a man sowing good seed in his field, and then the enemy coming at night to sow weeds among the good crop.

In chapter 13, Matthew gathered together a number of Jesus' parables on the Kingdom of God, many of them on the theme of good seeds and bad seeds.

In the explanation of the parable of the bad seed sown among the good seed under cover of night, we are taught that it is the Son of man, Jesus himself who sows the good seed, the gospel of redemption which makes us "subjects of the Kingdom".