<TITLE>17. Par 57-60</TITLE>L-57 And this man was laying on a pallet. Perhaps he--he might've had prostate trouble, or he might've had tubercular. It was retarded; he had it thirty-eight years. But remember, Jesus knew all about it, knew where he was laying. And He came to him and said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" passing by the rest of them. "Wilt thou be made whole?"
He said, "I have no one to put me in the water." He could walk. Said, "While I'm coming..." somebody else outruns him, gets in the pool first.
And He said, "Take up thy bed and go into thy house." And then Jesus was questioned of it. If He come to this city and did the same thing tonight, He'd still be questioned.
But what did he say? Listen. Saint John 5:19: "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." Jesus never performed one miracle without the Father showing Him first, or He told something wrong there. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself."

L-58 No doubt they were saying, "Why didn't you heal Mr. Jones over there? He's sold pencils on the street for so long."
"Here's old Sister Cashorn over here. Why, she's had arthritis for years. Why didn't You heal her? She's a good woman. She's a member of my synagogue."
He said, "I do just as the Father shows Me. The Father worketh and I worketh hitherto." Oh, that's Jesus yesterday; that's Jesus today. The same Jesus works as the Father shows Him. We notice it.

L-59 We see a woman coming through, and she said, "If could just touch the hem of His garment... (Saint John) If I could touch the hem of His garment I'd be made well," and she pressed through.
Now, He couldn't feel her touch just by simply feeling it physically, because the Palestinian garment hangs loose and had an underneath garment to keep dust off their limbs. Then they had... That's the reason they washed feet. And the hem of His garment... I couldn't feel if you touched my coat, and how about that garment hanging loose? But He felt the spirit. All men was around Him, but that little woman touched Him. And she stood up, for she said within herself, "If I can just touch the border of His garment, I'll be made well."
And Jesus stopped and said, "Who touched Me?"
And Simon Peter said, rebuked Him, and said, "Why do You say a thing like that?" Said, "Why, all of them's touching You."
He said, "But I perceive that I have gotten weak. Virtue's gone from Me." And He looked around over the audience until He found the little woman. And He told her of her blood issue and said, "Thy faith has saved thee."
That was Jesus yesterday. And tonight (Ask the clergymen.) the Bible said that Jesus Christ tonight is a High Priest setting in glory that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. If you touch Jesus tonight like that woman did, then how would He act? He'd act the same way He did then. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He'd turn and say, "You had so-and-so, but now thy faith has healed thee," if He's the same.

L-60 Now, remember, there's only (as closing), there's only three classes of people, or three nationalities, really, in the world. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. That's the three sons of Noah. We believe the Bible, that all the human race sprang from them three sons (if we're going to believe the Word), and that was Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. Now, remember, the Samaritans and the Jews... Samaritan was half Jew and Gentile. So they were looking for a Messiah. And the real true in heart, He revealed Hisself to them. And that was His decision. Remember, His decision to make Hisself known as Messiah by showing them that sign.
Them that believed Him had Eternal Life. Those that rejected Him went off into everlasting destruction. Now, we find Him... That's how He made Hisself known to the Jews. We could go... Look at blind Bartimaeus, and how... Oh, the--the Scriptures we could refer to.


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