Then, uncovering her head, a further demand of the law, she shouted shrilly, "Unclean, unclean!" To her surprise, the man came steadily on.
"What would you have ?" he asked, stopping opposite them not four yards off.
"Thou seest us.

Have a care," the mother said, with dignity.
"Woman, I am the courier of him who speaketh but once to such as thou and they are healed.

I am not afraid." "The Nazarene ?" "The Messiah," he said.
"Is it true that he cometh to the city to-day ?" "He is now at Bethphage." "On what road, master ?" "This one." She clasped her hands, and looked up thankfully.
"For whom takest thou him ?" the man asked, with pity.
"The Son of God," she replied.
"Stay thou here then; or, as there is a multitude with him, take thy stand by the rock yonder, the white one under the tree; and as he goeth by fail not to call to him; call, and fear not.

If thy faith but equal thy knowledge, he will hear thee though all the heavens thunder.

I go to tell Israel, assembled in and about the city, that he is at hand, and to make ready to receive him.