Geo MacDonald: Jesus and Women

From his novel, The Curate's Awakening, MacDonald speaks through the mouth of the young curate Wingfold as he was talking with another person about the women that Jesus had spoken to and how it was easy to see how much Jesus loved women by the way he talked to them. Wingfold ended the conversation by saying:

"How any woman can help casting herself heart and soul at the feet of such a man, I cannot imagine. You do not once read of a woman being against him - except his own mother when she thought he was going astray and forgetting his high mission. The divine love in him toward his Father in heaven and his brethren was ever melting down his conscious individuality in sweetest showers upon individual hearts. He came down like rain upon the mown grass, like showers that water he earth. No woman, no man surely ever saw him as he was and did not worship him."