James 3:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

The fig tree

So

Exodus 15:23

2 Kings 2:19

Ezekiel 47:8

Bible References

The fig tree

He dug it all around, removed its stones,
And planted it with the choicest vine.
And He built a tower in the middle of it
And also hewed out a wine vat in it;
Then He expected it to produce good grapes,
But it produced only worthless ones.

“Yet I planted you a choice vine,
A completely faithful seed.
How then have you turned yourself before Me
Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

You will

know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.

For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.

If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.

So

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold now, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”

Then he said to me, “These waters go out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah; then they go toward the sea, being made to flow into the sea, and the waters of the sea become fresh.