On the road leading to Capernaum a man was lying side by side with his little son, into whom had entered the spirit of epilepsy.

The child had fallen down and foamed at the mouth, and his teeth and hands were so locked together that his father, in his despair, all but strangled him.

He had already taken the child to the disciples of Jesus, but they had not been able to help him.

Then he sought the Master and exclaimed angrily: "If you can do anything, help him!" "Take heed that we do not all suffer because of him," the prophet said, and then made the child whole.

And they told yet more.