Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa was a miracle-worker from the Galilee in the first century, known for a faith so exact that his prayers came true almost by default. He lived in poverty. He asked nothing for himself. But for others, the heavens moved.
One day his daughter fell into a pit. A servant came running to tell him the news. Chanina listened and said only, Well, well.
A second messenger arrived with the same report. Again Chanina said, Well, well.
When the third messenger came breathless, Chanina's answer changed. She has come out. He spoke it as fact, not hope. And when the messengers ran back to the pit — she had come out.
Gaster's Exempla (No. 162, 1924) preserves the episode. The Talmud (Bava Kamma 50a and Ta'anit 24b-25a) tells similar stories of Chanina's prayers and the bat kol that answered him from heaven. The lesson is spare. A saint does not panic. He confers with heaven quietly, confirms what he already trusts, and then reports the outcome as if he were reading it off a page that had already been written.