Fruits don’t usually fall far from the tree. That is nothing unusual.
But it can be used as an analogy to mean that children are not that far away or different from their parents.
But as much as the fruit is from the tree, the fruit is in a way distinct from the tree it came from.
In the 1st reading, there was this proverb – The fathers have eaten unripe grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
But God told His people that there will no longer be any reason to repeat that proverb in Israel.
Because each person has to bear the responsibility of his actions.
So if a man commits sin, he himself will have to answer for it, and not his children.
In the gospel, Jesus blessed the children and said that it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.
Children are signs of a new beginning. May we bless them and nurture them in the faith so that they will bear fruits for the kingdom of God.