<TITLE>27. Par 99-102</TITLE>L-99 So she slipped through the crowd. And she was just a little, old spindly woman, you know? So she just slipped through the crowd, and she touched His garment.
Now, if you touched my coat, I wouldn't feel it, just my coat. And the Palestinian garment was a robe. And they had a underneath garment. It come from the foot up. That's the reason they had feet washing stuff. That big robe picked up the dust as they walked over the trails.
Well, then, if you was ever in Palestine, and noticed how they done it, and how they take their shoes off and have their feet washed because the stink of the ground where the animals had been and stuff. They wasn't presentable to the people. So they had a-- they had a flunky that washed the feet. And a... So they had their feet washing.
So this woman touched the border of His garment, it hanging that far from Him. Now, physically, He could not have felt it. He couldn't have done it. But she touched the border of His garment, then she went out, she set down, stood up, or whatever it was in the audience of people, may--maybe two or three times what's here. Jesus stopped, and said, "Who touched Me?"

L-100 Why Peter thought that was ridiculous. He had never received the Holy Ghost as yet, you know. A man with the Holy Ghost would know different.
So he said, "Why, You..." Why, the Bible said he rebuked Him. In other words he said, "What do You mean to say a thing like that? You're supposed to be a sensible Man. And here You are here, You're calling Yourself the Messiah and saying, 'Who touched Me? Why, don't You know, people will think You're crazy? Everybody's touching You.'"
I can see Jesus look over at Him and saying, "Poor Simon. But this was a different kind of touch, Simon. I perceive that I have gotten weak."

L-101 Virtue, strength had gone from Him. And He just stopped. He seen Simon didn't know it and the rest of them didn't know it. So He just looked around over the audience until He found that woman. Maybe setting way back...?... He told her her blood issue had stopped because her faith had saved her. Is that right?
Now, how many knows that the New Testament said that Jesus Christ, right now, is a High Priest, setting at the right hand of God, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. How many knows that's true? Say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right.
Then is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? Then how would you know you touched Him? How would He act? He'd act just like He did then if He's the same.
So you without your cards, or whatever out there in the audience that won't be up here tonight, you just pray. And say, "Lord Jesus, I believe You're that High Priest that they're talking about. And let my faith touch You tonight."

L-102 Now, if you touched me, it wouldn't do no more good then touching your husband, or touching your brother, or--or--or your son, or whatever it would be. See? That wouldn't do a thing. Touching me, that wouldn't be a thing. But you just touch Him, and watch what He does.
You say, "Brother Branham, how would it act?" By a gift, just giving myself over to the Spirit. It does the talking. See?
Now, this microphone is a perfect mute. It can't speak. It don't know how to speak. It takes something to speak into it to make it carry the sound. Is that right?
Well then, every one of you here's strangers to me. The only two people I know up here at all is these--this man setting here that was with me this morning, and Brother Gene Goad, this man over here, and Brother Hall. That's the only ones that I can see in the building. My wife isn't here tonight. And that's the only ones that I know. But Jesus knows every one of you. Is that right? He knows every one of you. And He promised in the last days, there would be light. Just like it was at the rising of the sun, it'll be the same in the setting. Is that true?
Now, you just touch His garment, if He shall come and help us.


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