<TITLE>08. Par 22-23</TITLE>L-22 And then, we see another time where He met a woman at the well. And He talked to her awhile. And He found out that she had some troubles; that was, that she'd had five husbands. And the one she lived with then wasn't her husband. And in telling her this, she run, said, "Come, see a Man, Who told me all things I did."
Now, do you imagine He had a lot of critics? He was the... He said when He went to the grave of Lazarus, "I am the Resurrection and Life: He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die." He said that. That's the truth. Well if He was the Resurrection and Life, why didn't He raise up all the dead that died in Jerusalem during the time of His stay? If He'd make that statement tonight in Louisville, Kentucky, the newspapers in the morning would be publishing it everywhere: "Well, the doctors might as well just get rid of their instruments and everything. We got a man here now that can raise the dead. So it's all over."
But He only raised three people in His entire ministry. Three is a confirmation. Three is a sign. The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established." He raised Lazarus from the dead, Jairus' daughter, and the woman, the widow woman's son: three in His ministry for a sign.
Yet if what--if He was the Resurrection and Life, probably thousands of Jews, right out of the church, orthodox in their belief, renown in their religion, and so forth, died during that time. Perhaps hundreds of people come to Him, "Come raise my son. Come raise my daughter. Raise my father."
Jesus said, "Let the dead bury the dead; follow thou Me." He never went to them. And then what about that? Here's His Word said He was the Resurrection and Life and here He is failing to produce that: only with a sign now and then.

L-23 Now, we know that He, when He's possessed with powers, and God was in Him, and here He goes to the pool of Bethesda. That's Saint John the 5th chapter. Now, listen close. There lay great multitudes of people, impotent folks, lame, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at certain seasons and troubled the water: whoever stepping in first was made whole of what disease they had. Here comes Emmanuel, God Himself inveiled here before human eyes: God, made manifest in the flesh.
He said to Thomas... Thomas said, " Show us the Father and it'll suffice us."
He said, "I been so long with you, and you don't Me?" Said, "When you see Me, you see the Father? And why say, 'Showeth us the Father?'"
Here comes then, God Jehovah in flesh, walking among, crippled, lame, blind, halt, withered people: full of love, full of compassion and yet touched none of them. "I would see Jesus. Sirs, we would see Jesus."
See what I mean? He walked right by each one of them and went over to a man laying on a pallet; said, "Will you be made whole?"
He said, "I have no one to put me to water."
"You can walk?"
"Yes. While I'm coming down, somebody can outrun me and beat me into the water; they get the blessing. I set here month after month waiting." He had a disease he wasn't going to die with it. He had it thirty-eight years.
And Jesus said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" and He told Him he had no one to put him in the water. He said, "Take up your bed and go into your house."


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