Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree, then, that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire."

"For there never is a healthy tree that bears poor fruit, nor a sickly tree that bears good fruit.

Then He told them a story: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees.

For every tree is known by its fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or gather grapes from a bramble-bush.