<TITLE>11. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 Watch what He said. He went through the pool of Bethesda. There was, though, great multitudes of people, perhaps as many as this arena--this auditorium would seat: laying blind, halt, and withered, crying, cutting one another to get into the water, when an angel troubled the water. They wanted to get in, test their faith. He walked right through that crowd of people. (Still Saint John 5, all this is in Saint John from 1 to the 5th chapter.) And then when He went through there, He searched around till He--He found a man that was laying on a pallet.
Now, you southerners know what a pallet is, don't you? I was raised on one. It's a quilt, or something, or a little mattress laying by the door or something.
He was laying on the pallet. He wasn't crippled. He wasn't blind. He could walk. He said, "When I'm coming down to the pool someone outruns me."
But Jesus knew that he'd been in this condition for thirty-eight years. And He said, "Take up your bed and go into your house," walked right away and left the rest of them.

L-43 Saint John 5:19: don't forget 5:19. He was questioned. Watch what He said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing." How many ever read that? Let's see your hands. Well, you're Bible readers anyhow. "The Son can do nothing..." Then Jesus' Word, which the Scriptures cannot be broken, He did nothing until God showed Him by a vision what to do first. That's His own Word. If that's wrong, then the rest of it's wrong.
God showed Him first, no man. Not even His own flesh was glorified till after His resurrection, but then God alone is the Healer. God alone is the only One can heal. And Jesus said, "I do nothing until My Father shows Me first. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto." You get it?

L-44 A woman, just before that, had pressed through a crowd, and she said within herself, "If I can touch His garment, I'll be made well." She touched Him went off and stood out in the crowd.
Jesus stopped and said, "Who's touched Me?" All of them denied it. But in Him, (Oh, blessed be His Name.), in Him was the sufficient power of the Holy Ghost, which could discern and say, "You call Me Beelzebub, why reason ye in your heart? I saw you before you come to the meeting. Your name is so and so." If that was God manifesting Himself... And the woman touched Him. And Jesus was determined. And Peter said, "Lord, why the whole multitude's touching You. Why do You say something like this?"
He said, "But I got weak. Virtue went from Me." He looked around, and He was endued with the power that He found the woman, who she was, and He told her what her trouble was, and told her that her faith had made her well. That was Jesus yesterday. That's Jesus today if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
You say, "Brother Branham is that Scriptural?" Yes, sir. "Where is that in the Scripture?" In the New Testament, the book of Hebrews, the Bible said, "He is a High Priest (right now, this hour), a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How many ever read that? Let's see your hand. Certainly.

L-45 Well, if you touched Him, how would you know you touched Him? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He'd manifest Himself in the same manner. Is that right? Certainly it is.
Friends, we are living in the last days. This is mercy before judgment. What is it? All through the ages... Just a little before closing, we'll pick it up next time when we speak.
Read Saint John 1 to 5. See what He done. Take it in consideration. How did He manifest Himself? By them signs. That's how He did it. And He never did it before a Gentile, nowhere in the Scriptures. But here He's doing it now. He's here now. He's alive now.


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