¹⁰ The ax is already at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.^(A)

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)

⁸ Still other seed fell on good ground and produced fruit: some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown.^(A)

²⁶ When the plants sprouted and produced grain, then the weeds also appeared.

¹⁹ Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” At once the fig tree withered.

³⁴ When the time came to harvest fruit, he sent his servants to the farmers to collect his fruit.

⁴¹ “He will completely destroy those terrible men,” they told him, “and lease his vineyard to other farmers who will give him his fruit at the harvest.”^(A)

⁴³ Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruit.

¹⁴ He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit^(A) from you again!”^(B) And his disciples^(C) heard it.