Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or a grapevine figs? In the same way, no spring can produce both salt water and fresh water.
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for by its fruit the tree is known.
Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves. Then he said to it, “May there never be any fruit from yoʋ again.” And at once the fig tree withered.
Does a spring pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening?