A fig tree, my brothers, cannot bear olives, or a grape-vine figs, can it? And a salt spring cannot furnish fresh water.

So he said to the vine-dresser, 'Look here! for three years I have been coming to look for figs on this fig tree, and have not found any. Cut it down. Why waste the ground with it?'

"You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for a tree is judged by its fruit.

So any healthy tree bears good fruit and a sickly tree bears poor fruit.

A healthy tree cannot bear poor fruit, and a sickly tree cannot bear good fruit.

As He saw a fig tree by the roadside, He came to it but found on it nothing but leaves, and said to it, "Never again shall a fig grow on you!" And the fig tree at once withered up.

"For there never is a healthy tree that bears poor fruit, nor a sickly tree that bears good fruit.

And another angel came from the altar, who had power over the fire, and he called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Put forth your sharp sickle, and gather the bunches of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are fully ripe."

So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth's vine, and flung them into the wine press of God's wrath,

I tell you, I will never again drink the product of the vine till the day when I drink the new wine with you in my Father's kingdom."

I solemnly say to you, I will never again drink the product of the vine till the day when I drink the new wine in the kingdom of God."

for I tell you, I shall not after today drink the product of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."

"I am the real vine, and my Father is the cultivator.

You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.

Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree then that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire.