Santiago 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.
Context
This verse from Santiago Chapter 3 connects to 10 cross-references. La lengua es un miembro pequeño pero se jacta de grandes cosas — como un pequeño fuego que incendia un gran bosque. Ningún hombre puede domar la lengua; de la misma fuente no pueden salir agua dulce y amarga.
Otras traducciones
can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.
is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water <FI>is able<Fi> to make.
Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?
Referencias cruzadas
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore …
And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the …
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, …
So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a …
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked …
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate …
Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and …
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?