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

And he dug it, and gathered out its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a wild vine unto me?

You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.

For a good tree brings not forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

For if the firstfruit are holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

So

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray you, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is bad, and the ground barren.

Then he said unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters of the sea shall be healed.