<TITLE>11. Par 29-31</TITLE>L-29 Must've been Andrew, setting by the side of Peter, then, said, "Can I testify, brethren?"
"Yes."
Said, "I want to speak for the whole group of us." Said, "When that day when we were going down to Jericho from Jerusalem, going down to Jericho, went right down the mountain... But He had need to go by Samaria. We always wondered. Now, I remember Him telling that priests that day, that He said, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise.' So we seen Him that day walk through a multitudes of lame, blind, halt, twisted, withered, and found a man laying on a pallet. Said, 'Take up your bed and go into your house.' The man obeyed Him. The priest questioned Him, and He said, 'I do nothing till the Father shows Me.' And He knowed the man had been in that condition. Brother, that settled it, that He was the... He knowed, God had showed Him what to do, showed who--where the man was, knowed he'd been that way for thirty-eight years. He wasn't paralyzed, or he wasn't crippled; he could walk. Said, 'When I'm coming down somebody steps ahead of me.'"
"Yes, I remember that."

L-30 "And somehow He was strangely led. And we all know that. We went up to Samaria. And isn't it strange, when we got just outside the city there at that well, He set down at this well and sent us all away."
"Yes, brethren," said, "Yes, I... Why, we remember that, Andrew, very well."
And said, "When we went out into the city, and, John, that's where you showed off and wanted to burn the city up, you know, but--'cause they wouldn't give us something to eat. But we come back, and you know when we come back up through the bushes there, we were so surprised when we saw our Master talking to a woman, a young girl, young woman, perhaps His age. And you remember, she had just pulling up the water pot when we come up. So we wanted to see what He would do. So He said, 'Woman, bring Me a drink.' And quickly she looked at Him and said, 'It's not customary for you Jews to ask us Samaritans things like that; we have no dealing, we have segregation here. You shouldn't say such a thing as that to me.' And He said, 'But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink, and I'd give you waters that you don't come here to draw.' Why, she said, 'The well's deep. You have nothing to draw with.'"

L-31 "You remember, brethren, how we all slipped down under that bush and listened to see what He'd say?"
"Yeah, I remember it, right behind the well there."
"And, Andrew, you remember, I tried to push your head down, trying to peep over the wall, and so we listened to see what He'd say to this woman. So she come closer to Him, and she said, 'Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; you say at Jerusalem.' Remember the conversation went on a little while. And after awhile, He looked her right in the face, and He said, 'Go, get your husband and come here.' You remember what she said, 'I don't have any husband.' Oh, we thought, now, now something caught Him, now He's got it. That woman said... Now, we know if she'd say a lie and He'd be our God, our Lord, we know that that woman would probably die right in her tracks. That's right. To dispute God's Word right to His face... So we wondered what would happen. She said, 'I have no husband.' He said, 'You said the truth.' So we wondered what was going to happen. Then we hear Him raise up again, said, 'You've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband: so you said the truth.' You remember the looks of that woman's face, her hair fell down, her big pretty eyes looked out there. She scratched her head. She said, 'Sir...' Now, John, keep still, I know what you said, 'She's going to say He's Beelzebub.' But she said, 'Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.'"
She knowed more about God than the preachers does. She said--in that state. Oh, yes, a over-trained theological seminary experience takes you away from Him sometimes, farther than walking the street.


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