Virtue flowed out of Him. Now every miracle is a parable. That work cannot be done without faith. The moral miracle of regeneration can only be wrought by consent, seeing it touches the region of the will. Even we have to give Christ His opportunity and provide the conditions under which He can redeem our life from its evil and make of it the great thing it was meant to be.
Faith is the one thing needful.
If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believes. It is an arresting statement, and here is another, spoken according to Matthew on this same occasion - only addressed to the disciples. There it is again, repeated like a refrain. Now these read like extravagant statements, but there can be no question that our Lord meant what He was saying. And yet there is no more neglected doctrine in our Scriptures.