And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had spoken a great thing to you, would you not do it? How much rather then when he says to you, Wash, and be clean?
For they thought it good, and their debtors they are; for if the nations shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in the fleshly things.
It is not a great thing, therefore, if also his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.