royalJohn the Baptist uses fruit imagery throughout. One thinks of the fruit in the Garden.
An ax is put to a tree. Is it the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
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Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 3:1-12 - New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
The Proclamation of John the Baptist - In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’ This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, ‘The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.”’ Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then the people of Jerusalem and all Judea were going out to him, and all the region along the Jordan,