Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Luke 6:44
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.
44. do not gather figs ] The simile might have been illustrated by pointing to one of the common Eastern gardens or orchards with its festooning vines and fig-trees just beyond the rough hedges of prickly pear.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
For every tree is known by its own fruit,…. Good and bad preachers are known by their doctrines, the one being agreeable, the other disagreeable to the word of God; and good and bad men are known by their lives and conversations: the grace of God revealed to good men, and wrought in them, teaches them to live soberly, righteously, and godly; a holy life is the fruit of grace, and an evidence of it; and the wickedness that is in the heart of unregenerate men, and even the hypocrisy of formal professors, will show themselves in the common and ordinary course of their conversations:
for of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes; nor can they be expected from them: and no more can an unregenerate man perform good works, or bring forth: fruits of righteousness acceptable unto God; for these require a knowledge of his will, obedience to it, a principle of grace, love to God, faith in Christ, and a view to the glory of God; all which are wanting in such a person.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Is known (). The fruit of each tree reveals its actual character. It is the final test. This sentence is not in Mt 7:17-20, but the same idea is in the repeated saying (Matt 7:16; Matt 7:20): “By their fruits ye shall know them,” where the verb
epignosesthe means full knowledge. The question in Mt 7:16 is put here in positive declarative form. The verb is in the plural for “men” or “people,” . See on Mt 7:16.
Bramble bush (). Old word, quoted from the LXX in Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37 (from Ex 3:6) about the burning bush that Moses saw, and by Stephen (Acts 7:30; Acts 7:35) referring to the same incident. Nowhere else in the N.T. “Galen has a chapter on its medicinal uses, and the medical writings abound in prescriptions of which it is an ingredient” (Vincent).
Gather (). A verb common in Greek writers for gathering ripe fruit. In the N.T. only here and Re 14:18f.
Grapes (). Cluster of grapes.
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
Bramble – bush [] Matthew has tribolwn, thistles. The word occurs only once outside of Luke’s writings, in Mr 12:26, where it is used as the familiar title of a section of the Pentateuch. Luke also uses it in the same way (xx. 37). He was doubtless acquainted with it medicinally, as it was extensively used by ancient physicians. Galen has a chapter on its medicinal uses, and the medical writings abound in prescriptions of which it is an ingredient. Galen also has a saying similar to our Lord ‘s : “A farmer could never make a bramble bear grapes.” It is the word employed by the Septuagint for the bush out of which God spoke to Moses.
Grapes [] . Lit., a cluster of grapes.
Fuente: Vincent’s Word Studies in the New Testament
1) “For every tree is known by his own fruit.” (hekaston gar dendron ek tou idiou karpou ginosketai) “For each tree is known (recognized) by its own fruit,” by fruit of its own kind, Mat 12:33-34; Mat 7:20.
2) “For of thorns men do not gather figs,” (ou gar eks akanthon sullegousin ouka) “For they do not gather figs out of or from among thorns,” from thorn trees, do they? The law of “every thing after his kind,” is here affirmed, Gen 1:1-31.
3) “Nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.” (oude ek batou staphulen trugosin) “Nor do they pick or gather grapes out of a thorn bush,” do they? Jas 3:12.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(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 Luk. 20:37, and in the LXX. version of Exo. 3:2-4, and Deu. 33:16, for the burning bush on Sinai. We may note further the use of a different Greek word (that specially connected, as in Rev. 14:18-19, with the gathering of the vintage) for the second gather in St. Lukes report.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
44 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.
Ver. 44. See Mat 12:33-35 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Luk 6:44 . For in Mt., Lk. puts = thorn bush, rubus , and for applied to both thorns and thistles in Mt., Lk. uses in connection with , the proper word for grape-gathering.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
is known = gets to be known. Greek ginosko. App-132. by. Greek. ek. App-104.
his = its.
of = from. Greek. ek. App-104.
bramble bush. Greek. batos. Occurs outside Lake and Acts only in Mar 12:26. It is the same word in Exo 3:2-4 (Septuagint).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
For of: Gal 5:19-23, Tit 2:11-13, Jam 3:12, Jud 1:12
grapes: Gr. a grape
Reciprocal: Gen 1:11 – fruit Gen 1:12 – herb Pro 20:11 – General Mat 12:33 – and his fruit good Mat 13:23 – beareth Joh 3:8 – so