It becomes increasingly clear that the central theme emerging from our examination so far is the nature of true faith. Parables, miracles and exorcisms do not ensure it. Religious education and background does not automatically discover it. Family ties are not enough to create it. Demons, in a curious way, know its basis and oppose it. People in deepest need and desperation seem to find it, by a variety of routes. The disciples are moving towards it, because they have responded