Is there reason to create class for single function?

I've seen a lot of classes with a SINGLE function in it. Why do they put a SINGLE function into class?

I use classes just to make things more clear, but about those who put a SINGLE function into class? Is there any reason for it?

I see no difference between these:

<?php
class Image {
    private $resource;
    function resize($width, $height) {
        $resized = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
        imagecopyresampled($resized, $this->resource, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, imagesx($this->resource), imagesy($this->resource));
        $this->resource = $resized;
    }
}
$image = new Image();
$image->resource = "./someimage.jpg";
$image->resize(320, 240);

and

    function resize($width, $height) {
        $resource = "./someimage.jpg";    
        $resized = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
        imagecopyresampled($resized, $resource, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, imagesx($resource), imagesy($resource));
        $resource = $resized;
        return $resource;
    }

resize(320, 240);

My thought was that $resource is the main reason, because it's private:

class Image {
    private $resource;
    function resize($width, $height) {
        $resized = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
        imagecopyresampled($resized, $this->resource, 0, 0, 0, 0, $width, $height, imagesx($this->resource), imagesy($this->resource));
        $this->resource = $resized;
    }
}

$image->resize(320, 240);

and therefore isn't accessible to the global scope. But why isn't a simple function used in this case?