For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit.

And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire.

And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees;

For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.

And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?

It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.

And the Lord said, If your faith was only as great as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this tree, Be rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would be done.

And he went quickly in front of them and got up into a tree to see him, for he was going that way.

But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?