On the other side of the lake He had made a deaf-mute to speak, and at Bethsaida had made a blind man to see.

But, above all, every one knew how at Nain He had brought back a young man to life who had already been carried out of the house in his coffin! A wine-presser was there who told something about an old woman who had vehemently prayed the prophet to cure her sickness.

Thereupon Jesus said: "You are old and yet you wish to live! What makes this earth so pleasing to you ?" and she replied: "Nothing is pleasing to me on this earth.

But I do not want to die until the Saviour comes, who will open the gates of Heaven for me." And He: "Since your faith is so strong, woman, you shall live to see the Saviour." Thereupon she rose up and went her way.

These were the things He did, but He did not like them to be talked about.
Such was the talk among the people gathered round the little girl's corpse.