<TITLE>07. Par 22-23</TITLE>L-22 Here's an old man standing there blind, saying, "Somebody, please help me in the pool." Any historian knows that they even stab one another with knives trying to beat to the pool, the first time the Angel troubled the water. For whoever getting in, had faith, got healed. And then the Angel went away, just one--one at a time; maybe every month or two. But they'd waited for years. We can't wait for an hour where hundreds are healed. How times has changed. How people's faith has changed. How their desires has changed: they got to go right quick [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.], and there's--there's nothing to it. See? Oh, what a pity the world...
But watch Jesus passing through a crowd of lame people that would make this little audience tonight, would be probably thirty or forty times what we got laying here, or more. If I understand right, takes two thousand to make a multitude. And they were multitudes, plural. And Jesus come right by those little blind children, crippled, lame, halt, twisted. The very Emmanuel, the very God of heaven inveiled in human flesh, walking among those people, and failed to touch a one of them, or heal a one. Then He was full of compassion, huh? Scripture said He was full of compassion; He was full of love. Is that right? Then why not have compassion on that multitude of lame, halt, blind and withered? That's where your infidel takes you. And here's where he don't understand. See? Passing by there. And He went to a man that laid on a pallet. Maybe, let's say he had, oh, some kind of trouble; maybe sugar diabetes or prostate, something. It--it was retarded; he had it thirty-eight years. But Jesus knew he was laying there. And He went over and said, "Will thou be made well?" and leaving them poor crippled, blind people, oh, halt, withered, mother's of waterhead babies, and little blind children, and everything; walked right by every one of them and walked over there to the pool. Walked right by the pool, rather, and walked over to this man laying on a pallet. Could you imagine Jesus doing that? The Bible said He did it. Now, is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever? You're only looking at one side. But He walked by them and walked over to this man laying on a pallet, for the Bible said, "He knew of this man had been in this condition these thirty-eight years." He healed that one man, and walked away, and left that whole multitude of people laying there. That's the Scripture. Read it: Saint John 5.

L-23 Now, the Jews questioned Him. I want you to read the whole chapter tomorrow: Saint John 5. When the Jews was questioning concerning the man with his bed on the Sabbath day... Look. Now, Saint John, let's take the 19th verse now, the same chapter, Saint John 5:19. The Jews was questioning Him. Now, look what Jesus said. It's... Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing. For whatsoever things the Father doeth, that doeth the Son likewise. And He'll show you greater than this that you might marvel. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto."
Watch, audience. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Jesus didn't claim to be a Divine healer. He claimed to be God's Son, and that's what He was, and said He could nothing until the Father showed Him what to do. "And a little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet you'll see Me for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world." Now, watch. "The things that I do," said Jesus, Saint John 12--Saint John 14:12: "The things that I do, shall you also, and greater than this, for I go to my Father." Is that true? "If ye abide in Me and My Word in you, ask what you may and it'll be given." That's either right or wrong: it's right.


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