will go with you."

Others who had followed Him along the bank heard the decision. They
marvelled at the words that had passed, and the erring woman whom He
had protected would not leave Him.

In the distance the clamour could still be heard, but gradually the
crowd dispersed. Jesus then sought lodging for Himself and His
disciples.

CHAPTER XV

A short time after, some of those who had formed the crowd at Magdala
were gathered together in the house of the Rabbi Jairus. They were
watching the dead. For in the centre of the room, on a table, lay the
body of the Rabbi's daughter shrouded in white linen. Her father was
so cast down with grief that his friends knew not how to console him.
Then someone suggested calling in Jesus of Nazareth, whom they had just
seen resting with His followers under the cedars of Hirah. They
narrated the miracles that He had lately worked. On the road leading
to Capernaum a man was lying side by side with his little son, into
whom had entered the spirit of epilepsy. The child had fallen down and
foamed at the mouth, and his teeth and hands were so locked together
that his father, in his despair, all but strangled him. He had already
taken the child to the disciples of Jesus, but they had not been able
to help him. Then he sought the Master and exclaimed angrily: "If you
can do anything, help him!" "Take heed that we do not all suffer
because of him," the prophet said, and then made the child whole. And
they told yet more. On the other side of the lake He had made a
deaf-mute to speak, and at Bethsaida had made a blind man to see. But,
above all, every one knew how at Nain He had brought back a young man
to life who had already been carried out of the house in his coffin! A
wine-presser was there who told something about an old woman who had
vehemently prayed the prophet to cure her sickness. Thereupon Jesus
said: "You are old and yet you wish to live! What makes this earth so
pleasing to you?" and she replied: "Nothing is pleasing to me on this
earth. But I do not want to die until the Saviour comes, who will open
the gates of Heaven for me." And He: "Since your faith is so strong,
woman, you shall live to see the Saviour." Thereupon she rose up and
went her way. These were the things He did, but He did not like them
to be talked about.

Such was the talk among the people gathered round the little girl's
corpse. Among the company was an old man who was of thos