<TITLE>09. Par 39-43</TITLE>L-39 "Who touched Me?"
Everybody denied. But Jesus looked around over the crowd until He found where that was flowing from, that strength was coming. He found the little woman and He told her, "Your faith has made you whole." And she come and fell down at His feet and worshipped Him.
Now, if that was Jesus yesterday, that's got to be Jesus today. Is that right? If He's the same yesterday, today... Going down... In Saint John 5 now...
Going down to the pool of Bethesda, He come to a great multitude of people: thousands, laying there, lame, halt, blind, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. And Jesus, a few days after that woman touched Him, went right down through that bunch of people. And people say He was full of compassion. He was, but godly compassion, not human sympathy, but godly compassion. What a difference. Certainly is. Like the two kinds of love: one's affectionate, and the other is Divine.
And so He passed down through that pool like this would be in this hole here, this pit, and there laid thousands of people laying there: lame, halt, blind and withered.

L-40 Many historians have told us the great pathetic sight who stabbed one another trying to get in when the Angel come on the water. And Jesus passed through that, and went by the afflicted, and blind, and every... And found a man laying on a little pallet laying there that had probably prostate trouble or something. He had it for thirty-eight years. It was retarded. He had that trouble when I was a baby. See? So you can just think of that difference in the age.
Now, here he is laying on a pallet, and Jesus walked up to him, leaving the blind, the afflicted, and twisted, and halt, and maim, and said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" Isn't that strange? Emmanuel? What? Was that Jesus yesterday? That was. According to the Word, and I'm daresn't to doubt one Word of it.

L-41 But the Bible said, "He walked by them: lame, halt, blind and withered." Scripture said so. And He found this man that wasn't too bad. He could walk. He couldn't race very good, 'cause, "Someone beats me to the pool," so he said. Now, he could walk; he could get around. He wasn't blind, lame, halt, but he had some kind of a retarded disease, had it thirty-eight years. And Jesus said, "Take up your bed and go into your house."
Jesus walked away and left that crowd. What? That's what the Scriptures said. That's right. The man was found packing his bed 'cause it was the Sabbath. And Jesus was questioned. And Jesus gave him the answer, in my closing, The Jews... Do you think He'd be questioned today?

L-42 Do you think today if Chicago would say, "Mr. Branham, we understand you pray for the sick, so we're going to empty every hospital, and put them out here in Soldier's Field, or whatever the place is out here from these big stadium places, and we're going to lay all the hospital cases all around here, everywhere, every doctor's going to be there and everything. And we sure invite you to Chicago. Come on up."
"Thank you. The Lord willing, I'll be there." And I went walking down through there.
"Mr. Branham, could you heal one?"
"No, it isn't me that doeth the works; it's the Father." Is that what Jesus said?

L-43 He walked down through the crowd, walked away, and said, "Well, the Father never showed Me anything," walk away. What do you think the doctors would say? What do you think the mayor would say? What do you think the preachers would say?
They'd be the first one to kick. "I told you there wasn't nothing to it." But Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Does the Bible say that? He's the same.
Now, the Jews questioned Jesus. Now, listen. Here's His Word: Saint John 5:19. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise."


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