Among the company was an old man who was of those who liked to display their wisdom on every possible occasion.

He declared that faith and love, nothing else, produced such miracles.

No miracle-worker could help an unbeliever; but a man whom the people loved could easily work miracles.

"They forget all his failures, and remember and magnify all his successes.

That's all there is in it." A man answered him: "It is important that he should be loved, but the love is compelled by some mysterious power.