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.