# A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit—Matthew 12:33-50 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832/a-tree-is-known-by-its-fruit-matthew-12-33-50 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832/a-tree-is-known-by-its-fruit-matthew-12-33-50.md Podcast: [Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin](https://stenobird.com/podcast/preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832) Published: 2026-07-10T05:33:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stjohnrandomlake/episodes/A-Tree-Is-Known-by-Its-FruitMatthew-1233-50-e3llekk Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/25c9700/podcast/play/122386516/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-4%2F3a180901-cb09-df97-b287-77a011cd9ce8.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832/episodes/a-tree-is-known-by-its-fruit-matthew-12-33-50 Duration seconds: 2078 ## Resource 33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. 34 Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. 36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” 38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.” 39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. 42 The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here. 43 “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the fir… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832/episodes/a-tree-is-known-by-its-fruit-matthew-12-33-50/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832/a-tree-is-known-by-its-fruit-matthew-12-33-50.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.