<TITLE>11. Par 29-31</TITLE>L-29 Then, it must've been after he got through; it was good old Andrew sitting beside of the apostle Peter who was going to testify next.
It must've been him that said, "Well, brethren, let me speak for all. Did not we all be thoroughly convinced when He was going down to Jericho from Jerusalem? And that's a straight line right down the mountain to Jericho. But that morning He said, 'I have need to go by Samaria.' That's up on the mountain. Why would He have to go, going to Jericho, come by the way of Samaria? You remember how strange we all felt that day? But we was... Each one was afraid to say anything to Him, because we knowed that God was in Him, and God was leading Him, and we didn't... We--we just didn't want to say anything about it, 'cause it was God that was leading."
He said, "He was... We went with Him up around Samaria, and you remember how those old stones... And He got so tired going up there, and He set down at the well and sent us in to get some food, down in the city. He set down by the public well. There was nothing there to even draw Him a drink with. We would wanted to cool Him off, by give Him a drink, and washing His feet. But He said, 'Brethren, go on down and get some vittles, and I'll wait here,'" a little panoramic like that where the well set. It's a--a public well for the city.

L-30 "And while we were gone... They wouldn't sell us any food, so we come back out to the well. And you remember we heard something going on when we come back. And we stooped down in the sagebrush there to listen, see what was being said. And there was a--a beautiful woman, that we thought would be a very godly looking woman. She was pretty, her hair, her face, and she was rather young. And she was talking with Him.
"And we heard Him say to her, 'Woman, bring Me a drink.'
"And she said, 'Sir, it's not custom for You Jews to ask Samaritans such. I'm a woman of Samaria; therefore, we have no dealings one with another (A great segregation.). We have no dealings.'"
"And listen what He said. 'If you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd bring you water, you do not come here to draw.'"
"She said, 'The well is deep; You have nothing to draw with.'
"And as they went ahead with their conversation about worshiping in the mountain and so forth, then we heard our Lord say, 'Go, get your husband and come here.'"
"And she turned and said, 'I have no husband.'"

L-31 "Then we thought, 'What's this? Has our Master made a mistake? When this woman said that--that she has no husband. As many times as we've seen Him perform that Messiahic sign. Then here He stands up here with a new class of people, the Samaritans. And yet, here on the very first thing He failed.'"
"She said, 'I have no husband.'"
"And then He said, 'Truly. You have spoke the truth, because you have had five husbands, and the one you're living with now is not your husband.'" He makes no mistakes.
"Then she said to Him, 'Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet.'"
What that woman knowed, when just a few days before there, when He had done the same thing, the church people called Him a devil, a spiritualist, a Beelzebub, said, "He was reading the people's mind, a mental telepathy or something on that order." Said, "He is Beelzebub doing this."
Jesus said, "You speak that against Me, I will forgive you. But in otherwise, one day the Holy Spirit's going to come to witness for Me. And when He comes and does the same thing, speak one word against It will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come." That's how serious it would be.


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