And the servant was healed in that hour. These passages are full of healings, exorcisms, travel, and reversals of the purity laws of the times. These two are, in a sense, the two persons in the story whose attitude is most like that of Jesus himself. Nothing is said, however, of their faith or confidence in Jesus' power. Many follow Jesus, but only these respond with acts of kindness.
Compassion has the power to give birth to compassion.