Can a fig-tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine yield figs? No; and neither can salt water yield sweet.
»Either grant the tree to be wholesome and its fruit wholesome, or the tree poisonous and its fruit poisonous; for the tree is known by its fruit.
and seeing a fig-tree on the road-side He went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. »On you,« He said, »no fruit shall ever again grow.« And immediately the fig-tree withered away.
In a fountain, are fresh water and bitter sent forth from the same opening?