1
The son of Annas the scribe takes a willow branch and scatters the water Yahushua had gathered.
2
Yahushua rebukes him for destroying what he did not make.
3
He announces that the boy will wither like a tree without root.
4
The child's strength fails and he falls.
5
His parents carry him away grieving.
6
The episode marks the dangerous power attached to the child's speech in the earliest narrative stratum.