<TITLE>07. Par 21-24</TITLE>L-21 Woman, she came out to the well. Well, maybe she didn't get up till at around noontime, or maybe she couldn't come with the rest of the other women was coming to get their water. So anyhow, she come out about eleven or twelve o'clock, when they was gone to get something to eat. And Jesus was setting over on a wall somewhere, till He seen the woman put the bucket in the well or the pitcher to draw out the water. He said, "Bring Me a drink."
Why, she looked over, and it was a Jew. She was a Samaritan. They was just racial in them days, just like in the South today, the white and colored.
She said, "Why, it's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such." In other words where's all the hospitality coming from? Where's all the kindness? "You a Jew asking me a Samaritan, we're suppose to be outcasts. So how You come to ask..."
Jesus said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
Why she said, "How can You give me a drink?" In other words, "The well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with," and so forth. The conversation went on and on.

L-22 Now, I have my own opinion what Jesus was doing. See? He was trying to catch her spirit. And so when He--He finally did, He said, "Go get your husband, come here."
She said, "I don't any husband."
Said, "That's right. You've had five. And one you have now is not your husband."
Now, what if that in New York today? Well, they'd say, "You know what? That Guy is a good polish up soothsayer; that what He is." Well, they called it the same thing then; said, "He's Beelzebub." Well, He said... She...
What did she class it as though. This woman, let her be whatever she was; she said, "I perceive that You are a prophet." She said, "I know that the Messiah (Now watch, the One were talking about tonight.)... I know when Messiah comes, He will do these things. He will tell us these things. But I know that You're a prophet." And she run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that's told me everything I ever done. Isn't this the Christ?"

L-23 He never told her all that she did, but He told her one thing, and He could told her more if He wanted to, I guess, if God would've showed Him. Now, that's the kind of Jesus He was. He knew where a fish was one time, had some money in his mouth. He knew where two mules was tied where two ways met. He knew where an upper room was to be provided; He told His disciples. That was Jesus of nineteen hundred years ago, is that right?
Well, now do you believe that Hebrews 13:8 is inspired? Do you believe that the God's Word? Well, It says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever." If... Do you believe that? Sure, that's right.

L-24 Now notice, if He is, then after while He had to die for the sins of man. But I want you to notice just a little bit, another one Scripture, if it won't tire you to much to listen to this. There's a pool [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... that man was laying on the pallet, and He said, "Wilt thou be made whole." Why, not the blind man, twisted man, the lame, the halt? Never said a word to them. What about the little children? Never said nothing to them, but went over to this man laying on a pallet.
Now, if you know the Scripture, Jesus said He knew this man and he had been in this condition for thirty-eight years. He might've had TB or... It was retarded; it wasn't going to hurt him, wasn't going to kill him, rather. But he--he could walk. He said, "When I coming down, someone else steps ahead of me." He wasn't blind or neither was he crippled; he just had this disease, an infirmity, something in his body. He'd had it thirty-eight years.
And Jesus knew where he was at. Now, I want you to watch that. He knew the man was there. That's the reason He passed all the rest of them to get to that man. And He said, "Take up your bed and go to your house." Then He walked away and left all that multitude of people.


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