Discovery BoxMatthew 12:33 
ContextTrees and Their Fruit
12:33 “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad 1 and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
Matthew 24:43
Context24:43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief 2 was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.
1 tn Grk “rotten.” The word σαπρός, modifying both “tree” and “fruit,” can also mean “diseased” (L&N 65.28).
2 sn On Jesus pictured as a returning thief, see 1 Thess 5:2, 4; 2 Pet 3:10; Rev 3:3; 16:15.
