Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 13:26

"But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also." — Matthew 13:26 (ASV)

But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

The false wheat came up with the true. Perhaps the seed in the one case may have looked like the other even as there is another gospel which is not another by which some still come to trouble us. The only true test is, By their fruits you shall know them; so, when the seeds had sprung up, there was the blade of true wheat, and then appeared the tares also.

Good seed grows and alas! evil seed is equally full of the power to increase. Satan’s principles have a terrible vitality and rigor in them. Both seeds were hidden for a while, but when one sprung up, the other appeared also.

The darnel is up as soon as the wheat, and it looks so much like it that it appears to be the very same thing. The field is ruined. Its yield is poisoned by the mixture of a pernicious plant. What had the enemy gained for himself? Nothing; it was enough for him that he had injured the man he hated.