<TITLE>14. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 "Yes," he said, "I remember Him. Why He told him that his name was Simon and his father's name was Jonas. Now, you are a smart man in the Scriptures. Is not the Messiah to be that type of Person?"
"Yes. Yes. That's right."
"It wouldn't surprise me if He didn't tell you who you were before you get off the ground."
"I'll have to see it."
"And then when Brother Nathanael come up into the Presence of our Lord, He said to him, 'Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile,' and so surprised him."
And then Nathanael said, "Yes, I was surprised. I said to Him, 'Rabbi, when did You ever see me?' And He said, 'Before Philip called you when you were under the tree, I saw you.'" He said, "I was fully convinced that that was the Messiah. And I fell on my face before this Man and said, 'Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel.' I was convinced, brethren."

L-54 Andrew, the brother of Peter, then said, "But brethren, all of us, that day, you know, when He was going down to Jericho, straight shot right to Jericho from Jerusalem. But He had need to go by Samaria, up around the hills. Said the Father was sending up to Samaria. And when we got up there, you remember how sore His feet was? And He was tired and weary. And He wouldn't even go into the city. He set out there by the well. And when we slipped back up. And they wouldn't let us have no food, you remember. So we slipped back up to the well where they were at. And when we got there, we seen a woman coming up. And we thought we'd just stop and see what this woman would do. And we knowed she was marked, an ill-famed woman. And when she was letting the pitcher down into the well, we heard their conversation. And we seen our Lord stand there to that woman and see them hair drop down over her face with surprise when He said, 'Go, get your husband and come here.' She said, 'Sir, I have no husband.' Then we wondered, 'Uh-oh, here's a slip-up. Something's happened now.'"

L-55 Perhaps about like our little sister thought that was sitting here awhile ago with the baby.
"Here's a slip-up. Something happened now." 'Cause He told her to go get her husband, and she said she didn't have any husband. And I hope the little lady's in hearing distance somewhere. All right. She's... That must've been a slip-up.
And so he said, "We all laid there in the bushes and listened to see what He would say. And said, 'Well, I have no husband.' He said, 'Thou hast said well, for you've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband.' How did it change her? A moment, the hair fell down, her big, pretty eyes shined. The tears rolled down her cheeks. She said, 'Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know that the Messiah's a coming. And when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things.' And we were surprised how that the unlearned Samaritans would be looking for a sign of Messiah and know the true Messiahic sign. 'We know that when Messiah cometh...' Them people that wouldn't give us some food down there... Think that those people were trained well enough to know that when Messiah cometh, He'd give a Messiahic sign."

L-56 "Yeah," said, "We were all surprised, remember." "And she said, 'Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet.' And we were comparing what the preacher said about Him, and what this woman said about Him, a woman of ill-fame, yet knowed more about the Scriptures than some of those priests did. They just had one road they could travel. This woman learned it from a Divine conception of the Spirit." Said, "How could she ever knowed it? She said, 'I know when Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. But Who art Thou?' He said, 'I'm He that speaks to you.' Now, we were all aware then that that was the Messiah. We were convinced. The Scriptures had bore record of His ministry, that He was Messiah."


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