<TITLE>19. Par 64-66</TITLE>L-64 When a Jew found Him in the Jewish religion, a real true Orthodox Jew found Him, He recognized Him to be the Son of God, the King of Israel. What did Jesus do to make Him recognize that He was the Son of God? He told him that he was a--a believer, and an honest man, and told him that he saw him praying under a tree before he come. How many knows that's right? And what did them Jews say? "Thou art the Son of God. You're the King of Israel." Is that right? That's what he said.
Peter recognized it when he come and Peter said... Brought him up before the Lord and Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas, but," said, "I'm going to name you again. I'm going to call you Petra which means a little stone." I wonder what the apostle thought.
"How did He know who I was, and what my name was, and what my daddy's name was?"
And when He knew that this Hebrew had come from around the mountain, and the day before Jesus said, "I saw you under a tree..." How could He see him thirty miles around behind the mountain? But He saw him, as He said, "I can do nothing except the Father shows Me first. What I see the Father do, that I do also." That was the sign of the Messiah. Is that right?

L-65 Is the little boy there the first patient? Oh, you are. Come here just a minute. Here's another illustration. Here's a man and a woman standing here for the newcomers. Now, there was a--a--a sign of this one time in the Bible. There's a woman who recognized Him to be the Christ in the Bible. She was a Samaritan, and one day Jesus was going down to Jericho, but the Father told Him, "Go up to Samaria." Now, here's Jericho. Here's Jerusalem. Over there's Samaria. So in going to Jericho He went the round about way, way up here to Samaria, for He said He had need. He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him.

L-66 Now, watch. He sets down on the well, and He sends the disciples away. That's perhaps what His vision called for. Would you believe that? He did nothing till the Father showed Him. Well, when the woman went--or when all of them went away, a woman come out. We believe her to be a prostitute, a woman of ill fame, about noontime. She come out to get her a jug of water, and when she got the jug up, got her water. Perhaps starting to lift it upon her head, Jesus, a middle-aged Hebrew man, setting over to one side, said, "Bring Me a drink."
Well, she looked around and said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. We don't have any dealings with each other."
He said, "But 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."
And she said, "Well, you've got nothing to draw with." She said, "Now, we know that our father, Jacob, dug this well, and he gave it to us. And his cattle drink from it and you mean you're greater than our father, Jacob?" She said, "We--we worship in this mountain and you say at Jerusalem."


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