for if you were taken from the wild olive, which was natural to you, to be grafted into a good olive-stock of a different nature, with how much greater reason shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?

these are the two olive-trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the Lord of the earth.

can a fig-tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine figs? no more can the sea yield water that is fresh.

if then, some of the branches are broken off, and thou like a wild olive, were grafted in their place to partake of the root and sap of the olivestock;

Either allow the tree to be good, and its fruit good; or else say the tree is corrupt, and its fruit corrrupt: for a tree is distinguished by its fruit.

or figs of thistles? so every good tree yields good fruit: but a corrupt tree yields bad fruit.

a good tree cannot produce bad fruit: neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

when seeing a fig-tree by the way, he came to it, and finding nothing thereon, but bare leaves, said to it, may you never more bear fruit. and presently the fig-tree withered away.

Peter remembring the tree, said, master, see the fig-tree, which you cursed, is quite withered.

Certainly a good tree does not produce bad fruit: nor does a bad tree produce good fruit.

in the midst of the area, surrounded by the river, was the tree of life, which had twelve fruit-seasons, yielding its fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

the ax is already laid to the root of the trees: every tree then which does not produce good fruit, will be hewn down, and cast into the fire.

the ax is already laid to the root of the trees: every tree then, which does not produce good fruit, shall be hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Then by way of similitude, consider, said he, the fig-tree, and all the other trees;