<TITLE>14. Par 60-64</TITLE>L-60 If you'd notice, He passed through a--a place where there was a great multitude, maybe several thousand people. Historians tell us that they laid at this pool of Bethesda, and when the Angels troubled the water, they would stab one another trying to get in first to test their faith against the Angel. And remember, the first one got healed, all was strength of the Angel was gone for another season. They waited, maybe, for months. One man had been waiting for years. And Jesus passed through this same place, where a few days before a woman touched His garment, and He turned around; He said, "Who touched Me?"
And all of them denied it. And Jesus said, "But I've got weak; virtue went from Me." And He looked around over the audience, until He found the person that touched Him. He said--told her what her trouble was, that her faith had made her well.

L-61 Now, that was Jesus yesterday. The Bible said He's the same today and a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
If that ain't the truth, then I--I would lay this Book down and leave here, 'cause if it isn't the truth, I don't want nothing to do with it. But I found this: that every Word is the truth. You can rest your soul... I may not have faith to make it all act right, but I believe it anyhow. I'll never stand... I might not have faith to walk like old Enoch did, take the little walk and go home in the afternoon, not have to die. I may not have that kind of faith; I may not have faith enough to shout down the walls of the city like Joshua did, but I'll never stand in somebody else's way that has that faith. I'll--I'll thank God for that faith. What faith I have, I love Him, and ask for more.

L-62 Now, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the woman touched Him, and He did not know, or... He can't lie; He was God. So the woman touched Him, and He said, "Who touched Me?"
And Peter said, "Well, the whole multitude's touching You? That's what He's doing today.
But He said, "I perceive that virtue has gone from Me. (That's strength.) I got weak." And He looked around water was on the pool (the Angel rather) on the water, and said, "Well, I--I got weak." So He found the woman and told her.
Now, if He's the same, and the Bible said in the book of Hebrews, "He, now, is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." How many Bible readers would say, "Amen", just now? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Well then, if He is the High Priest now, He's got to act like He did then, to be the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Nothing till the Father shows Him.

L-63 Now, He told the truth, therefore, He never performed one miracle until God showed Him by a vision what to do, according to His own Word, Saint John 5:19. Search the Scriptures. No prophet ever did anything at random; it's always God. No flesh can glory in the sight of God.
And Jesus did not call Himself a Divine Healer. No, He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He showeth Me, or doeth the work. I just act out what He shows me to do."
And He was standing in multitudes of people, and people would come up to Him, and He'd know who they was, and what their names were, where they come from, what they had done in their life. How many knows that? Would you say, "Amen?" [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-64 The woman at the well, He talked to her, and He told her where her sin was. And she run into the city, and said, "Come, see a Man, Who told me the things that I done? Isn't this the Messiah?"
That woman knowed more about God than half the preachers in the world today. That's right. Being a prostitute, she was better taught. She knowed more about it than all the religious trained Pharisees of their day.
They said, "This is the devil. Well, this man... That's the devil. He's a fortuneteller."
But what did the devil say about it? "We know Who You are, the Holy One of God."


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