<TITLE>12. Par 25-27</TITLE>L-25 But he fell down at Jesus feet, and said, "Thou, Rabbi, Thou art Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel." Heart, ready, willing, ready to accept it: "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
Again, as we was reading here tonight, He was going down to Jericho; He need go by Samaria. What a bypass. Here's Jericho going this way, and Samaria way up here, but He had to go by there. I wonder why.
Eleven o'clock in the day and a prostitute came out. He sent the disciples away. He knew she was coming. And He sent the disciples away. About eleven o'clock in the day she came out. Maybe, she just so bad, she didn't want to appear before the public, all the rest of them done got their water. Maybe, she was out all night, and slept till eleven o'clock in the day. I don't know. But anyhow, she got there where Jesus was; when Jesus saw the woman come, He said, "Bring Me a drink." Now, watch, I'm picturing this Jesus. "Bring Me a drink."
Why, she looked around, and saw He was a Jew, and she a Samaritan; she said, "It's not customary for the Jews to ask Samaritans such. We have no dealing."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd give you water that you didn't come here to draw."
What was He doing? Watch the alternative He had now. Said, "If you'd come, you'd ask Me for a drink, and I'd give you water you didn't come here to draw."
She said, "The well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with." He went on talking to her. What was He doing? Contacting her spirit. And she looked at Him kinda strange. And He said, go right straight to the point. "Go get your husband." That's what her trouble was.
She said, "I have no husband."
Said, "You got five."
She turned and said, "I perceive that You're a prophet."

L-26 And she ran into the city and called the men, and said, "Come, see a Man, that told me everything I ever done." He didn't do that. He just told her the one thing she done. But if God could reveal to Him one thing she done, He could reveal everything she had done. Is that right?
Said, "Come, see a Man, Who told me all things I done. Isn't this the Christ?"
And the men come out; He went into the city and spoke to the a while. They saw He was a little different, His teaching from other men. And they said, "We believe now, that He is."
Now, notice, again, here He goes. You believe He was the Son of God, virgin-born, precious Son of God, full of compassion, full of mercy? Want to show you His limitations.

L-27 Now, notice, just a little bit now. He went by a pool one time called in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda. God willing, I aim to go through that porch in a few weeks.
Now, into this pool, where you go to the pool, and great multitudes of impotent folk laid there, of lame, halt, blind, withered, waiting for the moving of the water; for an Angel come down in a certain season and troubled the water. Whoever stepping in first was made whole of whosoever disease he had.
Look, here comes Jesus. Let's dramatize this just a moment. Here's a woman standing there with a little baby with a water-head, about like that. Here's a poor old daddy with arthritis, standing there, an old blind mother screaming. And anyone that's ever read Bible history, and the history of the Foxe's "Book of the Martyrs," and so forth, know... And Josephus writing that they even stabbed one another trying to get in that pool first, the first one in, got healed of whatever disease he had, that is if he had faith. Some of them laughed at it, said, "The wind just changed around the wall, troubled the water." But they believed it was an Angel. I believe it was an Angel.


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