<TITLE>11. Par 35-37</TITLE>L-35 Now, we could just go on and on through the Scriptures, but I'm trying to hold my time so you won't be wore out, and many... I want to hit one more Scripture, if possible, before we come to the prayer line. Let's just take one more thing.
After Philip got through testifying, Andrew... They maybe started the boat up, and he said, "Just a minute, brethren. Let me testify."
You know, there's something like that. You always want to testify when you really come in contact with Jesus. He said, "Let me testify for all of us, so that we'll all know." Said, "You remember that time that He told us that morning, or the day before, 'Tomorrow we're going down to Jericho.'"
And now from Jerusalem to Jericho is right down the mountain. You go right over and right down the mountain to Jericho. "But He had need to go by Samaria. And we often wondered, why did He want to go all the way up to Samaria before going down to Jericho? And He said He had need of going." Why? The Father was sending Him.
"And you remember, we got there about noon, and He was so tired, and we were upset about Him. And He set down by the side of the little public well about... little panoramic there with the..." Said, "He set down there to get... We thought He'd take a drink, and there was no--nothing there to drink out of, so we--He sent us in the city to buy vittles, food."

L-36 "And you remember? Oh, they... When we got finished and started back out, when we was coming up we happened to hear something at the well, and we slipped up behind the bushes. And we looked over to see what it was. And there was a woman of ill fame coming up to the well, and we listened in."
Now, I'm going to quote, brethren, and you all remember this," I can hear Andrew say, "Do you remember, the woman let the windle down to get some water? And when she brought the water up we heard--looked over, and seen what He was going to say about this woman, ill-famed. She was out of the churches. She was an outsider. (By the way, she was a Samaritan. Great segregation, the Samaritans and Jews didn't deal with each other.) And we seen this woman, a lovely-looking woman, but we knew she was ill-famed the way she was dressed. And they brought the water up and we heard Him say, 'Give Me a drink, woman. Bring Me a drink.'"

L-37 "And you remember how astonished we was that our Lord would have any kind of a dealings with a woman like that? And so, the woman said, 'Sir, it's not customary for You to ask Me, a Samaritan woman, for any favor, because You are a Jew.'"
"And do you remember what He said? 'If you only knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink; and I'd give you waters that you don't have to come here to draw.'"
"And she said, 'The well is deep, and You have nothing to draw with.' And you remember, brethren, how the conversation went on about the Jew and the Samaritan."
Now, I believe... I'll say this, I believe that Jesus was trying to contact her spirit, talking to her. The Father had sent Him up there. Let me clear that in your mind. Keep everything I've said in your mind now. I want to clear this. The Father... He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me."
And the Father must've sent Him up there, and said, "Go up till you find this well (He'd never been there before), set down there, and wait. I'm sending You there, and the rest of it'll take care when You get there."


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