The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire."

"A good tree doesn't produce rotten fruit, and a rotten tree doesn't produce good fruit,

because every tree is known by its own fruit. People don't gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush.

Then Jesus told them this parable: "A man had a fig tree that had been planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but didn't find any.

So he told the gardener, "Look here! For three years I've been coming to look for fruit on this tree but I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it waste the soil?'

It is like a mustard seed that someone took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."

The Lord replied, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you!

So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, who was going to pass that way.

When Jesus came to the tree, he looked up and said, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down! I must stay at your house today."

Then he told them a parable: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees.