Jesus Hid the Separation in a Parable When Jesus taught the Wheat and the Tares, He wasn’t giving a gardening story.He was revealing something ancient, something most people were never supposed to understand. He said the good seed are the children of the kingdom,and the tares are the children of the wicked one. That language doesn’t start in Matthew. It goes back to the beginning — to Cain, Esau, and the Serpent’s Seed. The parable is the New Testament lens on an Old Testamen