Matthew 12:33-34 ESV
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
This passage may remind us of the two trees in the midst of the garden. Now the garden is shown to be in the heart. The fruit we pick is chosen within and reveals the nature of the resulting tree, which is you and me.
Evil has its origin in us. Our fruit is something that grows on the inside and we are given the freedom to choose which fruit we will bear. Our fruit will become evident and by it we will be judged.
Jesus calls the Jewish leaders a brood of vipers because they look and act like their father who deceived Eve in the garden.
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