<TITLE>14. Par 51-54</TITLE>L-51 Now, we find... Let's go with them a little farther. Let's go over now... That's Acts... Saint John the 1st and 2nd chapter; let's go to Saint John the 4th chapter.
Now, there was three classes of people in the world then. There's three classes of people, three generations of people, or classes of people, rather, in the world today. And them was the--out of the three sons of Noah. If we believe the Bible, the whole world, the generations, all the people in the world, come down from those three children: Ham, Shem and Japheth, those three sons, Jew, Gentile and Samaritan.
Now, the Samaritans was looking for a Messiah also. And when the Messiah come, He comes to those who is looking for Him. You believe that? I believe when He comes for His Church, He will come to the Church that's looking for Him to come. Now, don't let it parallel that one: "He came to His own and His own received Him not." But then, He had made Himself known to the Jews by performing this certain sign, that they knowed that He was the Messiah.

L-52 Now, He had need to go by Samaria. Samaria was the... You know, you, ministers and Bible readings, so as how the Samaritan race raised up. Now, we find out that they were looking for a Messiah too. And Jesus came to the well there, Sychar, and along about noon, He sent His disciples away to get some food.
And there was a woman. Let's think that she was a ill-famed woman. And she was living with her sixth husband. And she came out to the well to get some water. No doubt your pastor has preached on it a many time. But I'm trying to say what He was yesterday, so that you can see what He would be today.
Now, He's made Himself known to the Jews. (Many other places, we'll get to later, but just to hit the point, and in a few minutes we'll call the prayer line.)

L-53 Now, He comes to this woman. Or this woman comes to get water, rather. And it's about noon time. And I can see her coming out with her--her hair hanging down, not combed. And she had the--the pitcher on her shoulder, as the oriental women usually carry it. And they can put five gallon of water on top of their head, five gallon on a hip, and five gallon over here, walk right on talking to one another and never spill a drop, just as perfectly balanced. And this woman maybe had this water pot. Let's see, she might've been... Because she'd been out all night and just got in, the reason that she was--or overslept. It might've been because she couldn't come to the well with the decent type of women. There was a great segregation among that in them days. An unclean woman couldn't mix with the--with the clean women.

L-54 So anyhow, she was at the well. And Jesus... It's kind of a panoramic. The well there at Sychar is something like this, vines growed up over the wall, and the city well there where the people come to get their water. I can see the woman come up, take the two big handles and put the hooks in it, and let the windle down to get water. And she heard a voice said, "Woman, bring me a drink."
And she looked over, and she seen a middle-aged Jewish Man, setting over against the well. Perhaps He looked a little older than what He really was. I believe when He was about thirty, they told Him that He looked fifty.
They said, "You are a man yet, not no more than fifty years old, and You say that You've seen Abraham?"
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."
So they--they... But He looked fifty when He was only thirty. And so He might've looked a little aged setting back there. Maybe a little streak of gray in His hair or beard, because the great burden, the sins of the world was placed upon His shoulders. And there He set there.


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