<TITLE>13. Par 47-49</TITLE>L-47 Now, when Jesus went down, one time He crossed the sea. He crossed over. A little priest said, "Come to my daughter. She's laying sick." And a woman that was in menopause, and she had a blood issue for many years, she touched His garment, and turned around, and went back out in the audience. Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?" And every one of them denied it.
But Jesus was endued with a Spirit of God. He was a man Himself, but He was God inwardly. You believe that? Today in this modern age when they try to make Him just a prophet. He was not a prophet; He was the God of the prophet.
A lady that belongs to a Christian Science church said to me some time ago, she said, "Mr. Branham, you try to make Jesus Divine."
I said, "He was Divine." If He wasn't Divine, He was the greatest deceiver the world has ever had.
She said, "If I will prove to you by the Scripture, He wasn't Divine, will you accept it?"
I said, "Sure."
She said, "In Saint John 11, when He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He cried. The Bible said He wept. He could not be Divine and weep."

L-48 I said, "Woman, your argument is thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that's starved to death." I said, "You know better than that." I said, "He was wept. That's right. He was a man when He weeping. But when He stood and straightened that little frame up and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man had been dead four days come out of the grave, that was more than a man. Corruption knew its Master; the soul knew its Creator. Yes, sir.
When He was come down off of this mountain one night, hungry, and looked around for something to eat and couldn't find nothing, He was a man when He was hungry. But when He took five biscuits and two pieces of fish and fed five thousand, that was more than a man. That was God, the Creator.
He was a man when He so tired laying out there on that little old ship, it tossed about like a bottle stopper on a mighty ocean. Ten thousand devils of the sea swore they had drowned Him. He was a man when He was laying there asleep. But when He put His foot on the brail of the boat, looked up and said, "Peace, be still," that was more than a man. That was God that...?...

L-49 He was a man when He cried for mercy at the cross. But when He broke the seals of the tomb on Easter morning and come forth, He was more than a man; He proved He was God. No wonder the poets said:
 Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
 Buried, He carried my sins far away;
 Rising, He justified freely forever:
 Someday He's coming--oh, glorious day!"
More than a man. He was God manifested in flesh.
There when that woman touched Him, He looked around and said, "Who touched Me?" That was a man speaking. Everybody denied it, but that power that was in Him; He found the little woman. He told her what her trouble was, and He said, "Thy faith has saved thee."
That was Jesus yesterday. He's the same today. Not the Old Testament, the New Testament in Hebrew, said, "He is our High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity." How would you know you touched Him unless He spoke back through His grace. Just as He did yesterday, He will do it today, or He isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever. We're living in the last days.


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