So you will know them by their fruit.
You will know them by their fruit; do men gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? No,
So I advise you to-day to leave these men to themselves. Let them alone. If this project or enterprise springs from men, it will collapse;
Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.
each tree is known by its fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.
Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives? Or a vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.