'What is this? Is there none that would eat with me?'
Mr. Treadman answered:
'Nay, Lord, there is none that is worthy. Suffer us first to wait upon You. Then afterwards we will eat also.'
He said:
'Does not a father eat with his children? Are they not of him? If there is any in this house that calls upon My name, let him sit down with me and eat.'
So they sat down and ate together. While they continued at table but little was said; for the day had been a long one, and they were weary. When they had eaten, the Stranger was shown into the best room, where was a bed which offered a pleasant resting-place for tired limbs. But He did not lie on it, nor sought repose, but went here and there about the room, as if His mind were troubled. And He cried aloud:
'Father, is it for this I came?'
In the street were heard the voices of the people, and those that cried:
'Christ has come again!'
And in the best room of the house the Stranger wept, lamenting: