<TITLE>06. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 And then turning his young featured face to his older brethren, and said, "Today, we've witnessed something greater. For it didn't happen in the night. We seen with our own two eyes what He did when He dumped that little boy's biscuits and fishes, and broke them, and fed five thousand before our own eyes. I never thought that I would live to see Jehovah God move like He did in years ago. Truly, my brethren," he might've said this, "that God will never get any smaller or be any weaker; He will always be God. How my little heart wondered where God got all that bread. And it always amazed me, where He got all that bread, and I'm still amazed how He could not only bring bread, but He brought cooked fish and fed five thousand before our own eyes. Truly I believe that He is the Son of God." He might've said something like that.
"And did you notice the amazement of the people, and did you see the look on His face as He raised the bread up to His heavenly Father and blessed it? How talking to God must've made such an expression on His face. We could never doubt no more," the young John might've said.

L-18 And the big fishermen setting there, beginning to perspire quite a bit from oaring, because the wind had begin to blow. And he turned, and he said to John and the rest of them, "I can remember too as a boy. My father was a Pharisee, the strict of our religion. And he used to read from me--to me out of the Holy Scriptures, and say that Moses gave a promise that we'd not always be alone, but the Lord our God would rise up from among us a Prophet like him. And this would be the One that would call the hearts of Israel back to God. And when Andrew, my brother setting here, come, told me that he believed this Nazarene Carpenter was that One, it was hard for me to believe that it would happen in my day. But when I walked into His Presence and He looked at me for the first time in my life, and said, 'Your name is Simon.'... And He did not forget my sainted old father, for He said, 'You are the son of Jonas.' Then I knew that must be that Prophet that was to come into the world. From that it settled it with me forever. I believe Him with all that's in me. I believe Him."

L-19 And as the conversation went on, speaking about impressions, it must have been Philip that said, "You should've been standing by our brother Nathanael when I heard our Master tell him where he was when I found him under a tree. Oh, of course when I found Brother Nathanael, first he was kinda critical of what I was speaking of. When I told him we had found Jesus of Nazareth, which was this prophet that Moses said that was to come, he was just a bit critical, because I could tell that little snare of a grin he had on his face, as if to say, 'Now, Philip, what kind of a story you trying to tell me?' But when he walked into His Presence and He said, 'Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile,' there was a real change in his looks. And then when he asked Him how did He know him, He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Then there was an expression of worship. This little critical grin had left his face, and on his knees he fell before our Master and said, "Thou art the Son of God; You're the King of Israel." It was a change when we see Him do His miracles.

L-20 And then one of them might've said to John, "What about the day that we let Him have the boat, and He said cast out into the deep--or launch out, where we'd fished all night? And we knowed there was no fish in that water. Yet He said, 'Let down the net for a draught.'" And when we had closed that great bunch of fishes, it was Simon that said, "Depart from me, Lord; I'm a sinful man." How amazing He was.


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