But the Master said: "If your faith were only like a mustard- seed, you could say to this mulberry tree 'Be up-rooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

So he ran on ahead and climbed into a mulberry tree, to see Jesus, for he knew that he must pass that way.

Then he taught them a lesson thus-- "Look at the fig tree and all the other trees.

Already, indeed, the axe is lying at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that fails to bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."