<TITLE>18. Par 61-64</TITLE>L-61 Now remember, He also said He had need to go by Samaria (Saint John 4). He was on His road to Jericho. He had to go up around the hill to Samaria. And when He got to Samaria, He sent His disciples into the city to buy some food. It was about--around noon.
He set on the well, a panoramic something like this. And there was a (I'd say, a beautiful young woman came out. We know her here in America as being a prostitute. She had bunches of husbands she lived with.) And she came out to get her water. Maybe it was 'cause she'd been out all night and slept up till noon. Usually the virgins go to the well early in the morning.
You ought to watch them how they windle that water out, and put a five-gallon jar on top their head, and one on each hip; and walk and talk like ladies can, and never spill a drop of it. But... Pardon me. [Brother Branham coughs--Ed.] Now, but maybe she couldn't come with the nice people; she had to come when all the rest of them had got their water.

L-62 So we find her coming out to the well. And she started to let her--her little--put the little hooks in the handles on the side of the--of the jug, and let it down to windle up some water, and she heard a voice saying, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she looked over and she seen a Jew setting there, a young Man.
He looked... Well, He was only thirty, but the Bible said He looked fifty. You know that. I guess His work done that to Him. Well, they said in Saint John 6th chapter, "You say that you have seen Abraham, and you're a man not over fifty years old?"
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." I AM was in the burning bush, you know.
So said, "You're not over fifty years old."

L-63 So He was setting over against the wall and asking this woman for a drink. Now, they had segregation there, like they used to have in the south. She said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask a Samaritan... me, a Samaritan woman. That's not customary in these days." (Listen to the conversation. Don't miss it.)
He said, "If you knew Who you were talking to (I wonder, tonight, if the church really knew the Presence of the Lord was here...), if you only knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink, and I'd give you water that you don't come here to draw."
She said, "The well is deep, and You have nothing to draw with."
And the conversation... What was He trying to do? Contact her spirit. The Father had sent Him up there. He didn't know why, but this woman come out. He was trying to contact her spirit. He said--He said...

L-64 She said, "You say worship at Jerusalem. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain. You say at Jerusalem."
Jesus said, "God's a Spirit; they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and truth." The conversation went on for a few minutes till He found what her trouble was. Now, listen. It'll do you good in a few minutes. See?
He talked to her till He found her trouble. And He said, "Go get your husband, and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
Watch. He's making them Samaritans now. He's done been to the Jew. Said, "Go get your husband, and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
He said, "You said well. You've had five. Therefore the one you're living with now is not your husband. You said the truth."


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