<TITLE>08. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 After while as dusk begin to set in, they were out of sight now, and it must've been young John; he was the youngest among them. It must've been he that waited a moment, stopped his oaring for just a few moments to catch a breath, as they had quite a distance yet to go across Galilee. And when he stopped to get his breath, he must've said something like this, as he wiped the perspiration from his face, said, "Brethren, we can rest assure that the Man that we're following is not a fake. Today when I stood over His shoulder and watched Him take those little fishes and break them in two, and watch, no sooner than He broke, there come another part of a cooked fish out. And I see Him take that bread, and break that bread, and hand to the brethren. Every time He broke a piece of bread off, no sooner than His hand left, there was another piece of bread there."
I want to ask you, what kind of an atom did He turn loose? Not wheat, bread already baked. It bypassed the oven, like He did His first miracle in Canaan. That water would've eventually become wine, it went up through the vines into the grape, crushed out, become wine. But He bypassed all of that; He was a Creator Himself. So in the great resurrection He will bypass papa, mama give birth to this. He will speak and we'll come from the dust, like He did Lazarus.

L-21 And John must've said, "You know, today has been a day that's settled all doubts in my mind. No matter how much that the rabbis and the teachers of this day say that He isn't God, I know He is. For I remember my mother reading me out of the sacred Scriptures, in the scrolls of Exodus, how that when they were hungry, like these people were today, God brought bread down out of heaven, and laid it up on the ground. So when I seen, I said to mother, 'Mother, has God got a big oven up there to break--bake that bread?' She said, 'No honey, God is a Creator.' And when I seen Him break that bread again today, I knowed that was that same Creator. Did not He look like Jehovah when He stood there looking upon the multitude and breaking this bread and passing it out? I was minded of the Bible stories that my mother used to read to me about Jehovah feeding His people bread out of the heavens. And today Jehovah remains the same, 'cause today, brethren, we have seen Jehovah break bread and give it to His people again and multiply. He surely must be what He says He is, the Son of God."

L-22 And as the young John was stopped then a moment by Simon Peter who always had to say something, and he said, "Well, while we're resting a moment, I'd like to give my personal testimony being that John has give his. I remember when Andrew, my brother setting here, used to tell me, 'You should go down and hear a prophet preach, predicting that there is coming a Messiah.' And I said, 'What kind of clothes does he wear?' Said, 'He had a sheepskin around him, come out of the wilderness; he's the Elijah that was spoke of to come; I believe it.'"
"Then one day he come back and told me about another man coming down, a young fellow about his age and all about some kind of a mystic light over the top of him or something." And said, "This prophet said he heard a voice saying, 'This is My beloved Son.' How do I know what to believe what that prophet said? I never heard him, don't know nothing about him, so I just dismissed the whole thing as a bunch of nonsense, and I thought my brother had went off on the deep end."


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