His bodily senses were all He needed to recognise the Father's power in nature, and to be happy in that knowledge.

He did not deny the world; He spiritualised it and made it divine.

The things of earth were to Him the building-stones for the Kingdom of Heaven.

So, in spite of increasing doubt, the disciples always found that things came right, and they, too, determined to despise the world and to love their simple life.
One day they came to a place in which there was great activity.

Men were ploughing in the fields, hammering in the workshops, lithe carmen and slow camel-drivers were driving hard bargains.