"We have newly come from a country where there is pestilence." But he smiled down on her uplifted face, with immense confidence.
"I am not afraid.

Besides, if I perish giving you comfort, I have done only as Jesus would have me do." "Who is Jesus ?" Laodice asked.
The shepherd made a little sign and bent his knee.
"The Christ!" he responded.
Momus plucked quickly at Laodice's sleeve and shook his head at her in an admonitory manner.

He had laid down his bread unfinished.

But the shepherd looked at him sympathetically.
"Never fear," he said.

"It will not hurt her to hear about Him.