she called out with a loud cry, "Blessed among women are you, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

that freed from fear and from the hand of our foes we should worship him

The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."

No sound tree bears rotten fruit, nor again does a rotten tree bear sound fruit:

each tree is known by its fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

As for the seed in the good soil, that means those who hear and hold fast the word in a good and sound heart and so bear fruit stedfastly.

And he told this parable. "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; he came in search of fruit on it but he found none.

So he said to the vinedresser, 'Here have I come for three years in search of fruit on this fig tree without finding any; cut it down, why should it take up space?'

Then it may bear fruit next year. If not, you can have it cut down.'"

And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, bound by Satan for all these eighteen years, was she not to be freed from her bondage on the sabbath?"