Luke 6:44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.

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New International Version
Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.

New Living Translation
A tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushes.

English Standard Version
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

Berean Standard Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.

Berean Literal Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

New American Standard Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush.

NASB 1995
“For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush.

NASB 1977
“For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush.

Legacy Standard Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.

Amplified Bible
For each tree is known and identified by its own fruit. For figs are not picked from thorn bushes, nor is a cluster of grapes picked from a briar bush.

Berean Annotated Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.

Christian Standard Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.

American Standard Version
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

Contemporary English Version
You can tell what a tree is like by the fruit it produces. You cannot pick figs or grapes from thornbushes.

English Revised Version
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Each tree is known by its fruit. You don't pick figs from thorny plants or grapes from a thornbush.

Good News Translation
Every tree is known by the fruit it bears; you do not pick figs from thorn bushes or gather grapes from bramble bushes.

International Standard Version
because every tree is known by its own fruit. People don't gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush.

NET Bible
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

New Heart English Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

Webster's Bible Translation
For every tree is known by its own fruit: for from thorns men do not gather figs, nor from a bramble bush do they gather grapes.

Weymouth New Testament
Every tree is known by its own fruit. It is not from thorns that men gather figs, nor from the bramble that they can get a bunch of grapes.
Majority Text Translations
Majority Standard Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.

World English Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for each tree is known from its own fruit, for they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they crop a grape from a bramble.

Berean Literal Bible
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.

Young's Literal Translation
for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.

Smith's Literal Translation
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns they gather not figs, nor of the bramble do they harvest the grape.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For every tree is known by its fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns; nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For each and every tree is known by its fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather the grape from the bramble bush.

New American Bible
For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles.

New Revised Standard Version
for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
For every tree is known by its own fruits. For they do not gather figs from thistles, nor gather grapes from a bramble bush.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“For every tree is known by its fruits, for they do not pick figs from thorns, neither do they gather grapes from a bush.”
NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For every tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes gathered from brambles.

Godbey New Testament
For every tree is known by its own fruit: for they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather the grape-bunch from the bramble.

Haweis New Testament
Every tree is known by its own peculiar fruit. For men do not gather figs from off thorns, nor do they gather from the bramble a bunch of grapes.

Mace New Testament
for every tree is known by its fruit: it is not on thorns that men gather figs, nor do they gather grapes on a bramble bush.

Weymouth New Testament
Every tree is known by its own fruit. It is not from thorns that men gather figs, nor from the bramble that they can get a bunch of grapes.

Worrell New Testament
for each tree is known by its own fruit; for they do not gather figs of thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

Worsley New Testament
for every tree is known by it's fruit; for men do not gather figs from thorns, nor grapes from a bramble.

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Context
A Tree and its Fruit
43No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles. 45The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.…
Cross References
For each tree is known by its own fruit.

Matthew 12:33-35
Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit. / You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. / The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.

Matthew 3:8-10
Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. / And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. / The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

John 15:8
This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.
Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes,

Matthew 7:16
By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Isaiah 55:13
Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”

Job 31:40
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
nor grapes from brambles.

Matthew 7:17-18
Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. / A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.

Isaiah 5:2-4
He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour! / “And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard. / What more could have been done for My vineyard than I have done for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?

James 3:12
My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, / gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

John 15:4-5
Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. / I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.

Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Colossians 1:10
so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.

Isaiah 5:1-7
I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. / He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour! / “And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard. …


Treasury of Scripture

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.

For of.

Galatians 5:19-23
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, …

Titus 2:11-13
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, …

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.

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Luke 6
1. Jesus reproves the Pharisees;
12. chooses apostles;
17. heals the diseased;
20. preaches to his disciples before the people: the beattitudes;
27. Love your Enemy
37. Do not Judge
43. A Tree and Its Fruit
46. The House on the Rock










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For each tree is known by its own fruit.
This phrase emphasizes the principle of discernment based on observable outcomes. In biblical context, trees often symbolize people or nations (Psalm 1:3, Jeremiah 17:8). The fruit represents actions or results of one's life (Galatians 5:22-23). Jesus uses this metaphor to teach that the true nature of a person is revealed by their actions, aligning with the wisdom literature of the Old Testament, such as Proverbs 20:11. This principle is also echoed in Matthew 7:16-20, where Jesus warns against false prophets, indicating that their true character will be revealed by their deeds.

Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes,
Figs were a common and valuable fruit in ancient Israel, symbolizing prosperity and well-being (1 Kings 4:25, Micah 4:4). Thornbushes, on the other hand, were often associated with desolation and curse (Genesis 3:18, Hebrews 6:8). This contrast highlights the impossibility of obtaining good results from a corrupt source. The imagery would resonate with Jesus' audience, familiar with agricultural practices. It underscores the importance of integrity and authenticity, as genuine spiritual fruit cannot come from a deceitful heart.

nor grapes from brambles.
Grapes were another significant crop in Israel, used for wine, a symbol of joy and blessing (Isaiah 5:1-7, John 15:1-5). Brambles, like thornbushes, represent barrenness and futility. This part of the verse reinforces the message that one's true nature cannot produce contrary results. The imagery of the vine and branches in John 15 further develops this theme, where Jesus describes Himself as the true vine, and His followers as branches that must remain in Him to bear fruit. This connection emphasizes the necessity of a genuine relationship with Christ to produce spiritual fruit.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Jesus Christ
The speaker of this verse, delivering a sermon that includes teachings on judging others, love for enemies, and the importance of bearing good fruit.

2. Disciples and Followers
The primary audience of Jesus' teachings, including this parable about trees and fruit, which serves as a metaphor for recognizing true character and righteousness.

3. The Sermon on the Plain
The context in which this teaching is delivered, a series of teachings by Jesus that parallel the Sermon on the Mount found in Matthew.
Teaching Points
Discernment through Fruit
Just as trees are identified by their fruit, so are people recognized by their actions and character. Believers are called to discern the true nature of others, especially leaders and teachers, by observing their "fruit."

Self-Examination
This teaching encourages self-reflection. Believers should examine their own lives to ensure they are producing good fruit, indicative of a life transformed by Christ.

The Source of Good Fruit
Good fruit is a result of a life connected to Jesus. Abiding in Him and being filled with the Holy Spirit is essential for producing the fruit that reflects God's character.

Avoiding Hypocrisy
The metaphor warns against hypocrisy. Just as figs cannot come from thornbushes, genuine Christian virtues cannot come from a heart that is not truly aligned with Christ.

Impact on Others
Our actions and character have a profound impact on those around us. Bearing good fruit is not only a personal spiritual goal but also a testimony to others of God's work in our lives.
Bible Study Questions and Answers
1. What is the meaning of Luke 6:44?

2. How does Luke 6:44 guide us in discerning true character in others?

3. What does "each tree is known by its own fruit" teach about integrity?

4. How can we apply Luke 6:44 to evaluate our spiritual growth?

5. Which other scriptures emphasize the importance of bearing good fruit?

6. How can we cultivate good fruit in our daily Christian walk?

7. How does Luke 6:44 challenge the authenticity of one's faith through their actions?

8. What historical context influences the interpretation of Luke 6:44?

9. How does Luke 6:44 relate to the concept of bearing spiritual fruit?

10. What are the top 10 Lessons from Luke 6?

What Does Luke 6:44 Mean
Each tree is known by its own fruit

“For each tree is known by its own fruit.” (Luke 6:44a)

• Jesus states a simple fact from creation that every listener could picture: what grows on a tree reveals exactly what kind of tree it is.

• In the same way, what flows out of a person’s life—words, actions, priorities—reveals whether that heart is yielded to God or opposed to Him (cf. Matthew 7:16–18; John 15:4–5).

• This principle is not merely about occasional mistakes; it concerns the consistent pattern of life. Ongoing obedience, love, and righteousness spring from a regenerated heart, while habitual sin signals a heart still bound by unbelief (1 John 3:9–10).

• We are not called to judge motives we cannot see, but we are commanded to recognize fruit we can see (Matthew 12:33); discernment protects the church from false teachers and encourages genuine believers to grow in holiness.

Figs are not gathered from thornbushes

“Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes” (Luke 6:44b)

• Thornbushes hurt, entangle, and choke—no one expects sweet figs among their barbs.

• Likewise, a life characterized by bitterness, envy, and self-promotion cannot suddenly produce the sweetness of godly love (James 3:14–17).

• Jesus contrasts two natures: the unredeemed “thornbush” nature inherited from Adam (Ephesians 2:1–3) versus the new nature given in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17).

• Transformation begins at the root level—repentance and faith in Christ—before any lasting fruit appears (Acts 26:20).

Nor grapes from brambles

“nor grapes from brambles.” (Luke 6:44c)

• Brambles are dense, sprawling, and unproductive; they symbolize the futility of works apart from God (Hebrews 6:8).

• Grapes, often linked to joy and blessing (Psalm 104:15; John 15:11), can never sprout from a bramble’s barren stock.

• This stresses the impossibility of mixing worldly, flesh-driven living with Spirit-produced fruit (Galatians 5:19–23). The source determines the outcome every time.

• Therefore, believers are urged to abide in Christ daily so that the “vine and branches” relationship bears authentic grapes—good works flowing from saving faith (John 15:1–8; Titus 3:14).

summary

Luke 6:44 teaches that the nature of a person is unmistakably displayed in the pattern of that person’s conduct. Just as apple trees can only yield apples, so a heart transformed by Christ will inevitably show the fruit of the Spirit, while an unregenerate heart can only reproduce the thorns and brambles of sin. Jesus’ vivid illustration calls us to honest self-examination, gracious discernment of others, and continual dependence on Him, the true source of every good fruit.

(44) Of thorns men do not gather figs.--The form of the illustration differs slightly from that in St. Matthew, where the thorns are connected with grapes, and the figs with thistles. The word for "bramble bush" is the same as that used in Luke 20:37, and in the LXX. version of Exodus 3:2-4, and Deuteronomy 33:16, for the burning "bush" on Sinai. We may note further the use of a different Greek word (that specially connected, as in Revelation 14:18-19, with the gathering of the vintage) for the second "gather" in St. Luke's report.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

each
ἕκαστον (hekaston)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1538: Each (of more than two), every one. As if a superlative of hekas; each or every.

tree
δένδρον (dendron)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1186: A tree. Probably from drus; a tree.

is known
γινώσκεται (ginōsketai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications.

by
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

its
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

own
ἰδίου (idiou)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2398: Pertaining to self, i.e. One's own; by implication, private or separate.

fruit.
καρποῦ (karpou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2590: Probably from the base of harpazo; fruit, literally or figuratively.

Indeed,
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

[people] do not gather
συλλέγουσιν (syllegousin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4816: To collect, gather. From sun and lego in its original sense; to collect.

figs
σῦκα (syka)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 4810: A (ripe) fig. Apparently a primary word; a fig.

from
ἐξ (ex)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

thornbushes,
ἀκανθῶν (akanthōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 173: A thorn-bush, prickly plant; a thorn. Probably from the same as akmen; a thorn.

[or]
οὐδὲ (oude)
Conjunction
Strong's 3761: Neither, nor, not even, and not. From ou and de; not however, i.e. Neither, nor, not even.

grapes
σταφυλὴν (staphylēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4718: A grape, cluster of grapes. Probably from the base of stephanos; a cluster of grapes.

from
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

brambles.
βάτου (batou)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 942: A thorn bush or bramble. Of uncertain derivation; a brier shrub.


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