Wherefore from their fruits shall ye know them.
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.
By their fruits shall ye know them. Far from it, do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from caltrops
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns they gather not figs, nor of the bramble do they harvest the grape.
And now say I to you, Depart from these men, and leave them; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it shall be destroyed:
The fig tree, my brethren, cannot make olives, or the vine, figs: so no fountain can make salt and sweet water.