<TITLE>17. Par 54-56</TITLE>L-54 Now, you say, "But Brother Branham, I know what He... She touched Him. Wonder if I could?"
The Bible says that He right now is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right? Well, if He's the same High Priest, if you touched Him, He'd act the same way. So reach up and touch Him tonight with your faith.
It wasn't... she... Well, you say, "I ain't close enough to put my hands on His garment." It... That--that wasn't what done it. He couldn't have felt that. The Palestinian garment has a underneath garment, and a big robe that swings out. Dust kicks up under that robe. That's the reason they had feet washing and so forth--to get the dust off their feet. So they--the--the Palestinian garment out like that, she never touched the--touching that border.
Why didn't He feel all these that had their arms around Him? "Hello, Rabbi. Glad to meet you, Reverend," and so forth. Why didn't He feel them? They touched Him more than she did; but He touched the--she touched the inside.
Said, "I felt virtue go from Me."

L-55 Few days after that He passed through the pool of Bethesda, and there was a man laying there that had an infirmity. There were all kinds of people there: lame, blind, halt, withered, every kind of an affliction. Jesus walked right around through them all, looking around, until He seen a man laying on a pallet. (I guess they'd call it that. All of us Southerners know what a pallet is, don't we? I was raised on one.) So lay--laying on a pallet, laying there, and he wasn't crippled, blind. He had... Let's say he had prostate trouble, or he might've had TB. It was retarded. It wasn't going to kill him. He'd had it thirty-eight years.
Jesus looked around until He found him. And He said, "Will thou be made whole?"
He said, "Sir, I have no one to put me in the water. When I'm coming, somebody outruns me and gets in the water first (See?), ahead of me; steps down ahead of me."
He said, "Take up your bed, go unto your house." See? What? The Bible said, "For Jesus knew..." See?
Now, He was questioned on that--John 5 and John 5:19. When He was questioned, He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son (the body), the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing. For the Father worketh and I worketh hitherto. I do nothing until I see." Then if He saw it, He saw the Father by vision doing the work. God showed Him by vision what to do, and He went and done it.

L-56 Look at the resurrection of Lazarus, when He come to the grave. You notice at the grave, He said, "I--I thank Thee, Father, Thou hast already heard Me (He knowed what was going to happen.), but I say it for these that stands by. Lazarus, come forth." Lazarus raised. Oh, my. Sure, because He had seen it done. He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him. He never said anything about virtue leaving Him then. How greater a miracle that was than the woman. But you see that was God using His gift. That was a woman using God.


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