n't work, because in their eyes
My work doesn't count. I don't work miracles on their bodies, because
I am come to heal their souls. Amon, say, would you exchange the peace
of your heart for sound legs?"

"Lord!" exclaimed Amon vivaciously, "if they say you do nothing good,
just let them come to the house of old Amon at Bethany. You came under
my roof, and my soul was healed."

"And you brought me resurrection and life," shouted Lazarus
passionately from the other end of the room.

"And me, more than that," said Magdalen, looking up at Him with moist
eyes. And then she bent down and kissed His feet.

And Peter exclaimed: "I was a mere worm, and He made me a man. He does
more than all the Rabbis and physicians and generals put together."

Then John turned to him and asked: "Brother, why didn't you talk like
that to the people in Jerusalem? Were you afraid of them?"

"Is yon man a coward?" asked the boy, pointing with his hand to Peter.
"Then he'll help us to play lion and sheep in the courtyard!"

Jesus shook His head over such talk, and said: "No, My Peter is not a
coward, but he is still somewhat unstable for a rock. No one who, at
his age, can train himself for the Kingdom of God could be a weakling."

Martha, who had gone out to look after the supper, called into the room
that the children's mother wanted them to go to her to read the
Haggadah.

The little ones pulled long faces. "To read the Haggadah!" murmured
the boy in a tone far too contemptuous of the holy Passover book.

"Don't you like to read about God, my child?" asked Jesus.

"No," replied the boy crossly.

John pinched his red cheek. "Naughty boy! Good boys always like to
hear about God."

"But not always to read about Him!" said the little one. "The Haggadah
tires me to death."

Then said Jesus: "He is of the unhappy ones for whom God is spoiled by
the mere letter of the Word. Would you rather stay with Me, children,
than go and read the Haggadah?"

"Yes, yes, we'll stay with you." And all three hung round His neck.

And Martha sought the mother and told her: "They are reading the
Haggadah with six arms."

CHAPTER XXX

Two days were spent in this quiet, cheerful fashion. Then Jesus said
to the disciples: "It is over; we must return to Jerusalem."

They were to spend the festival in the city, and James had hired a room
in which the Master and His twelve faithful friends could solemnly
celebrate the Passover. Hi