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
Bible References
The fig tree
Matthew 7:16
You must recognize them by their fruits. People do not pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles, do they?
Matthew 12:33
"You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for a tree is judged by its fruit.
Luke 6:43
"For there never is a healthy tree that bears poor fruit, nor a sickly tree that bears good fruit.
Romans 11:16
If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the whole mass; if the tree's root is consecrated, so are the branches.