43. “For a good tree does not yield rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree yield good fruit.
44. “For each tree is known by its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
45. “The good man brings forth what is good out of the good treasure of his heart, and the wicked man brings forth what is wicked out of the wicked treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks.
46. “But why do you call Me ‘Master, Master,’ and do not do what I say?
47. “Everyone who is coming to Me, and is hearing My words and is doing them, I shall show you whom he is like:
48. “He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock. And when a flood came, the stream burst against that house, but was unable to shake it, for it was founded on the rock.
49. “But the one hearing and not doing, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream burst, and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.”