<TITLE>14. Par 40-41</TITLE>L-40 Now, in the orient, if you ever see their customs, then that Book just lightens up to you. We western people, we set up and what we call work, but what it is there is different all together. But now He said...
A well is usually a place with some vines growed around it, there was like a arch in there. Jesus goes over and sits down and sends His disciples into the city to get some food. And while they were gone, a woman of Samaria, come out to get water. Now we know her as a prostitute, ill--famed, you're not trained to that... A--a woman that was a bad character, and she came out to get water.
Now, it's about noon time, maybe because she couldn't come out there when the other women was there. There was a difference in it then, they're all together now. But a woman with a bad character, she couldn't even associate with other women. She can't yet, in the Orient. They separated them, and she had to come some other time. Now, after all the virgins came and got their water packed in, she could go out, because she had a bad name. And it might have been because she was up all night, and just got up. However she went out there to let down the pot for some water, and when she did, Jesus, a ordinary Jew...?... sitting on the well, against the wall. He said, "Bring Me a drink."
Now, listen closely now. She said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. We don't have any dealings with one another." Just like between the colored and the white today, so forth, the racial problem that's up now, segregation. Said, "We have no such customs, for you Jews to ask a Samaritan such a thing."
He said, "But woman, if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd give you Water, you don't come here to draw."
She said, "The well is deep, and You ain't got nothing to draw with, how You going to get any water?"
He said, "The Water I give is Water in your soul, springing up to Everlasting Life."
She said, "Well, our fathers worship in this mountain, You say Jerusalem." The conversation went on at length, now you have to take my word for this now, here, this part. He was contacting her spirit. The Father had sent Him there, but He didn't know yet what was going to take place. And when He finally contacted the woman's spirit, He went right straight to her trouble.
He said, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "That's right, you got five."
Now, listen close. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. Now, we know" (Who? Samaritans. Watch the Jews now, in Nathanael.) She said, "We know that when the Messiah cometh," (You believe Jesus was the Messiah? Sure He was, Son of God.) She said, "We know, we got a sign we're looking for. When the Messiah cometh, He will do these things. He will tell us all things. But Who are You?"

L-41 Now, if that was the sign of the Messiah, Jesus, then; and if Jesus is not dead and is living today, raised from the dead; then it's got to be the sign of the Messiah today, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right?
She said, "We know when Messiah cometh He will tell us these things, but Who are You?"
He said, "I am He That speaks to you."
And she went into the city and said, "Come see a Man Who has told me the things that I did. Isn't This the Messiah?"
That was the sign of the Messiah to the Samaritans...?... the Scripture. That was the sign of...?... Messiah to the Jews. Is that right? Now, they were too stiff and orthodox, to accept it.
But Nathanael said, "I know Who You are. You're the Son of God, the King of Israel."
But the Jews said, "Nah, He isn't. He's Beelzebub." But that was still the sign. The Samaritans read the same Bible in the Old Testament. We'll get into this week and prove, that's what He was supposed to do.
She said, "We know that's... We know that the Messiah will do this, but You must be the prophet."
He said, "I am the Messiah."


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