Mat 7:17 | Barnes | STEP | Verse 17. A corrupt tree . The word corrupt here does not signify, as our translation would seem to indicate, that the tree had been good, but had become vitiated ; but that it was a tree of a useless character, of a nature that produces nothing beneficial. (f) "good tree"

Matthew 7:17

Verse 17. A corrupt tree. The word corrupt here does not signify, as our translation would seem to indicate, that the tree had been good, but had become vitiated; but that it was a tree of a useless character, of a nature that produces nothing beneficial.

(f) "good tree" Lk 6:43, 45