Already the axe is at the root of the trees, ready to strike; every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown in the fire!”

“For no good tree produces bad fruit, nor does a bad tree produce good fruit.

Each tree is recognized by its own fruit — figs aren’t picked from thorn bushes, nor grapes from a briar patch.

Then Yeshua gave this illustration: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit but didn’t find any.

So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘Here, I’ve come looking for fruit on this fig tree for three years now without finding any. Cut it down — why let it go on using up the soil?’

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his own garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds flying about nested in its branches.”

The Lord replied, “If you had trust as tiny as a mustard seed, you could say to this fig tree, ‘Be uprooted and replanted in the sea!’ and it would obey you.

So he ran on ahead and climbed a fig tree in order to see him, for Yeshua was about to pass that way.

Then he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, Indeed, all the trees.