'Lord, if You will not stay with us, may we come with You?'
'Nay; you are with Me although you stay. For where My own are, I am.'
'Lord, suffer me to come! Suffer it, Lord!'
'If you will, come, until you find the way too long and the path too hard for your feet to travel; for the road by which I go is not an easy one.' He turned to the woman. 'Do you come also?'
'If You will, I will stay at home, to make ready against You come again.'
He answered:
'You have not chosen the worse part.'
While they had been sitting at breakfast the boy had run out into the street, and told first to one and then to another how, with a touch, a wonderful Stranger had straightened his leg, so that he was no longer lame. And, since they could see for themselves that he was healed of his lameness, the tale was quickly noised about; so that when the Stranger came out of the shoemaker's house, He found that a number of people awaited Him without. A woman came pushing through the crowd, bearing a crooked child in her arms.
'Heal my son also! Make him straight like the other!'
And being moved by pity for the child, He touched him, so that he sprang from his mother's arms, and stood before them whole. And all the people were amazed, saying: