Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle ¹  because the harvest has come.” ² 

and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

He ¹  said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest ²  to send out ³  workers into his harvest.

Don’t you say, ¹  ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up ²  and see that the fields are already white ³  for harvest!

Then ¹  another angel came out of the temple, shouting in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud, “Use ²  your sickle and start to reap, ³  because the time to reap has come, since the earth’s harvest is ripe!”