James 3:12
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
KJV
μὴ δύναται, ἀδελφοί μου, συκῆ ἐλαίας ποιῆσαι ἢ ἄμπελος σῦκα; οὔτε ἁλυκὸν γλυκὺ ποιῆσαι ὕδωρ.
Greek NT
Numquid potest, fratres mei, ficus uvas facere, aut vitis ficus ? Sic neque salsa dulcem potest facere aquam.
Vulgate
can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.
ASV
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes? Or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- οὔτε ἁλυκὸν — SBLGNT
- οὔτε ἁλυκὸν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Οὕτως οὐδεμια πηγὴ ἁλυκὸν καὶ — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Gen 1:11 — And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
- Jer 2:21 — Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
- Luke 6:43 — For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
- Luke 6:44 — For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
- Matt 7:16 — Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
- Matt 7:16 — Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
- Matt 12:33 — Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
- Matt 12:33 — Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
- Rom 11:16 — For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.