43 "Now no good tree produces rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree produce good fruit 44 —each tree is known by its own fruit: people do not gather figs from thorn bushes, nor do they pick a bunch of grapes from a bramble. 45 The good man produces the good out of the good treasure in his heart, and the malignant man produces the malignant out of the malignant treasure in his heart; because his mouth speaks out of the abundance of the heart.*This whole paragraph is really about people, not plants, thus the term ‘rotten’.