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Parable 20 · to the leaders

The Tree and Its Fruit

Mattityahu 12:33–37
heartjudgement
What Yeshua is saying

A tree is known by its fruit; out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

The explanation

Yeshua refuses to grade by appearance. The mouth is the overflow of the heart — words betray what is stored inside. HaPerushim were calling His Ruach-driven works demonic; their words exposed their hearts. By your words you will be acquitted, by your words condemned.

Echoes from the Tanakh
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