therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.
`Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known.
From their fruits ye shall know them; do `men' gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?
for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.
and now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone, because if this counsel or this work may be of men, it will be overthrown,
is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water `is able' to make.