Genesis 21:8-21 and Matthew 13:36-43 (NIV)

Genesis 21:8-21
8    The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.
9    But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,
10  and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”
11  The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.
12  But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.
13  I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.”
14  Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.
15  When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.
16  Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she began to sob.
17  God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
18  Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
19  Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20  God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.
21  While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.


Matthew 13:36-43
36  Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
37  He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. 
38  The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one, 
39  and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
40  “As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 
41  The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 
42  They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 
43  Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.