¹⁶ You’ll recognize them by their fruit.^(A) Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?^(B)

A Tree and Its Fruit

³³ “Either make the tree good and its fruit will be good, or make the tree bad^[a] and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.^(A)

⁴⁴ For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.

¹² Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a saltwater spring yield fresh water.