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# Make a tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad
Possible meanings are 1) "If you make a tree good, its fruit will be good, and if you make the tree bad, its fruit will be bad" or 2) "If a tree is good, it will have good fruit, and if a tree is bad, it will have bad fruit." This was a proverb. People were to apply its truth to how they can know whether a person is good or bad.
# good ... bad
"healthy ... diseased"
# a tree is recognized by its fruit
"people recognize a tree by its fruit" or "people know whether a tree is good or bad by looking at its fruit"