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!

Likewise, every healthy tree produces good fruit, but a poor tree produces bad fruit.

A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, or a poor tree good fruit.

Any tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown in the fire!

“If you make a tree good, its fruit will be good; and if you make a tree bad, its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows up it is larger than any garden plant and becomes a tree, so that the birds flying about come and nest in its branches.”

Crowds of people carpeted the road with their clothing, while others cut branches from trees and spread them on the road.

Spotting a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. So he said to it, “May you never again bear fruit!” and immediately the fig tree dried up.

The talmidim saw this and were amazed. “How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?” they asked.

Yeshua answered them, “Yes! I tell you, if you have trust and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to this fig tree; but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Go and throw yourself into the sea!’ it will be done.

“Now let the fig tree teach you its lesson: when its branches begin to sprout and leaves appear, you know that summer is approaching.