<TITLE>09. Par 28-30</TITLE>L-28 So people were coming out of the city. And some was screaming one thing, and some another. About a hundred yards away from him. And as the crowds got more dense, he tried to raise up for--ask for coins, and the people shoved him down. And he said, "What's happening? What's all the noise about? What makes all this to do?"
And nobody would tell him, pushing him back, moving on. And he listens at the crowd: said, "Perhaps if I listen, maybe I can hear what's going on."
One of them walking along, being a minister, a priest, said, "Say, you prophesier, you who claimed you raised Lazarus from the dead, hey, we got a whole graveyard full up here. Come up and raise them up; we will believe you."
Them same--them men died, but that spirit still lives. One of them says, "Say, I heard a woman touched your garment, standing out in the audience and got healed. Say, we've got a lady down here that's got the same thing. Come, heal her and we will believe you."
"Say, you who prophesies, tell us who it was throwed that overripe tomato and hit you on the face with it then. Tell us who did that; we'll believe you if you're a prophesier."
Just a few days later they put a rag around His face, and he hit Him on the head, said--Roman soldiers said, "Tell us who hit you; we will believe you now." God don't clown; God works for a purpose. Jesus' was do the will of the Father.

L-29 That's what His Church is. Not clowning, if you are, you're out of God's will. You do only the things that please God for His glory. Not clowning; it's not side-shows; it's a Gospel of the power of the resurrection of Christ.
And He moved on. Let's you and I who can see, look at Him. There He is; He's moving up with His head, face... Some of them hollered, "Oh, Hosanna, the wonderful, the Galilean prophet, the great One, the One that Moses spoke of."
Other one hollers, "Nonsense." And screams and hollers, and some cursing, and some blessing, and just all kinds of mixed up screaming noise.
Blind Bartimaeus said, "Who is that, that passes by? Who--Who passes this way? What's all the emotion about?"

L-30 Finally some kind hearted woman, perhaps Zacchaeus' wife, Rebekah, stepped down and said, "Blind man, Jesus of Nazareth passes by."
He said, "Who is Jesus of Nazareth?"
"Have you read in the Bible that when Moses said, 'The Lord your God will rise up a prophet like unto Me?"
"Yes, I was just studying about that awhile ago. My mother used to read me that."
"And all the things that He would do, how the blind would see and the lame would..."
"Yes, I remember mother reading me that years ago."
"Well, that's He that passes by."
"Oh, you mean that's the Son of David going there?"
"Yes."
"Oh, Da--Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me!"
He couldn't hear him; there's too much going on. Just in the screaming and one hollering, "Do this." And one of them said, "Oh, you who can raise the temple up in three days, and after you stood and tore down. Let's see you do a miracle. Show us a miracle. Do something before us and we'll believe You."
And others screaming, "Oh, He's a great Man."
One says, "He's a deceiver."
The other one said, "He's--He's--He's a great man." All the carrying on, the emotions going on.


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