Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can saltwater produce fresh.
“Yet I planted you a choice vine, A completely true seed. How then have you turned yourself before Me Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.
And seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He *said to it, “No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you.” And at once the fig tree withered.
Does a fountain pour forth from the same opening fresh and bitter water?