<TITLE>16. Par 68-71</TITLE>L-68 We see a woman touch His garment. He said, "Who touched me?" Peter rebuked him. All denied it. And Peter rebuked Him, said, "How do You say such, Lord. Why everybody..."
He said, "But I perceive that I have gotten weak (or virtue, the King James puts it, means 'weakness.'); virtue has went out of Me."
And He looked around. Jesus was possessed with the pow... Excuse me. Jesus was endued with the power to perceive the thoughts of man. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen"--Ed.] Now, you say, "Brother Branham, that sounds on the black side, like telepathy, like fortunetelling." What's the difference? What's the two words, what means the difference between mind reading or perceiving a thought? Could you break it down? It's both the same. But Jesus was using the power of God. The fortuneteller is of the devil. He never speaks of God. He never preaches the Gospel. He never goes into the sick, and he never does the fruits, the... You shall know them. But what is that? That's a gift of God perverted to the devil. Sure, see?

L-69 Jesus looked around till He found the woman. And when His majestic eyes, as He stood there, small in statue, no beauty we should desire Him, we hid as it was our face, He didn't look like a king... But when He found the woman, she had a blood issue. He said, "Thy faith has saved thee." She come falling down.
Now, that was Jesus yesterday, Who could tell Philip and Nathanael, and Peter. If He's the same Jesus today and promised the same things that He did, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." Saint John 14:7. If He's the same today, "A little while, and the world will see Me no more." The world, there in the Greek word, is "Kosmos" which means "The world order," the church order, and everything.
"They'll see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I (and 'I' is a personal pronoun), I'll be with you (in one place He said), even in you, to the end of the age.": Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, how beautiful.

L-70 One more if you will. Let's turn to the woman at the well. What a beautiful sight that was. He--He sent His disciples away. He was going to Jericho just below the hill. He was coming from Jerusalem to Jericho, and Samaria sets up in here. But He had need go by Samaria. Wonder why?
He sent His disciples away. A woman of ill fame, as we believe it, come out to the well, and maybe a young woman, a prostitute. You know what I'm talking of. And she came out about noontime, maybe to get her water. She might've been out all night and slept all day. I don't know. But anyhow, she come up to get her water. And as the women come to the well, and let the windle down. If you was ever in the orient... And how they talk around the well and have little fellowship.

L-71 And as she let the bucket down by herself, or the jar. I seen them set one on top their head and one on each hip and just talk right along and never, never spill a drop of water, and just go right along. And here this young woman, probably a beautiful woman, let down on the windle, her--her jar with around the--the... It's kind of a jar, kind of... The big bulge part's at the bottom and a long neck, and handles out. They put this loop around and hold it on, let it down. That makes it turn sideways, fills up the water, and they bring it up.
What she was just about to pull the pot up to set it on her head, she looked setting, and this little panoramic here in vines, and there set a young, or a middle aged Hebrew Man. And as He looked at her, He was a--He was only in His thirties, but the Bible said He looked like He was fifty. They said, "You say you're a man that saw Abraham, and you're not over fifty years old." See? He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." See? They was thinking of the flesh.
That's what people look at today because it's intellectual. They can't understand the Spirit. You can't till you're borned of the Spirit, 'cause intellectuals don't declare spiritual things; has to be known of the Spirit.


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