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.

He looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like walking trees.”

Spotting in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came up to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it wasn’t fig season.

In the morning, as the talmidim passed by, they saw the fig tree withered all the way to its roots.

Kefa remembered and said to Yeshua, “Rabbi! Look! The fig tree that you cursed has dried up!”

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

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.