¹⁰ Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.^(A)

A Tree and Its Fruit

³³ “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad^[a] and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.^(A)

⁸ Still others fell on good ground and produced a crop: some 100, some 60, and some 30 times what was sown.^(A)

²⁶ When the plants sprouted and produced grain, then the weeds also appeared.

¹⁹ Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And He said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” At once the fig tree withered.