HERO | A Children's Book Connecting Jesus' Ministry To ElishaSample

After hearing about Elisha healing the Shunammite boy, I skip around the marketplace, flapping about and cheering, paying no attention to anything else. In my carelessness I trip and run right into a man walking through the streets. I scramble to my feet to dust off my clothes, and I look up to see that I bumped into the man from the wedding. I cannot believe it. He has come to Cana again. As I gaze at his face, I find it soft and gentle, yet warm, like a soft candle out in the fields under a starry sky. 

Right at that moment, as I manage to muster up enough courage to speak to this man, a nobleman comes running up—his eyes frantic. Barely even able to talk, he looks crazy. 
 
The nobleman comes to the man and says, “Jesus! My son ... my son is dead. I know you can heal him—please heal him.” Even though the man is very upset, all I can think is, “So that’s his name, the man from the wedding is called Jesus.” Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.” He looks disappointed, as the people keep demanding that he perform these miracles. The nobleman said again to Jesus, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” 
 
Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” The nobleman, leaping with joy, skips into the market. When he disappears into the crowd, I turn to talk to Jesus, but he’s gone.

That night as I return home, I do not know what to say or think about this man Jesus. Every time my Saba tells me about Elisha, I quickly run into Jesus doing similar miracles, only better. I think to myself, Did Jesus really heal that nobleman’s son? I mean, Jesus did not send a staff, and he did not go to his house and lay on him or anything. He just said, “Your son is healed.”