<TITLE>14. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 But He was a Jew, and there was segregation (like we're having a fuss about down in Louisiana and Georgia. I got some Georgia friends setting here.), about the segregation... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] colored and white, and so forth. That was Jew and Samaritan. And so Jesus seen the woman come up and...
Well, perhaps if you was ever in the orient, their customs never change... Correctly, she couldn't have come out with the decent women. See? They have to come out--the early... Virgins come out early and get their water.
And I've seen them take a pot of it (will hold five gallons), set it on their head, and put one on each hip, and go along like that, talking just as ladies can do, you know, and never spill a drop of water. It's amazing to watch how perfect and straight they walk with that, just talking to one another (you know) and never move that great big pot of water on their head. Two big handles on it, where they let it, windled it down into the well to get the water.

L-50 And this young woman comes out there. She perhaps, carrying the pot on her hip, as custom that the hook go under her arm... And she was thinking, maybe, about what she'd done the night before. She couldn't associate with the good women. So she started to let the pot down into the--the well. And he heard--she heard a voice saying, "Bring Me a drink; woman, bring Me a drink."
And she turned, and setting over by the vines against the wall, set a middle-aged Jew. Quickly she said, "It is not customary for a Jew to ask a Samaritan woman any favors." Oh, the segregation was bitter. "We have no dealings one with another. And you a Jew, and me a Samaritan woman, how would You ask me for a drink of water?"
Listen at the reply. "Woman, if you knew Who you were talking to..." Oh, my, that's what it is today. "If you only knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I'd bring you water, or give you water, you do not come here to draw."
"Oh," she said, "the well is deep, and You have nothing to draw with."

L-51 And the conversation went on. What was Jesus doing? Now, here, you'll have to take my word. (I hope you will.) He was contacting her spirit. He knowed there was something wrong. The Father had sent Him up there, so He knowed this woman was coming; because He said in Saint John 5:19, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." See?
Now, Father must have sent Him up there, and He seen that was the woman, so He had to contact her spirit to talk to her, till He found out where her trouble was. He said...
She said, "We wor--You worship at Jerusalem and in this mountain we worship..." The conversation went on for quite awhile. Finally, Jesus caught her trouble. Now, listen. (Excuse me, I'm not trying to yell at you. I've been preaching outside, and so forth, and I make a lot of noise, I think.) Said, "You have nothing to draw with, so how could You get the water?"

L-52 Said, "Well, now, if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I'd give you waters you don't come here to draw." And the conversation went on. He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
Oh, I can see her eyes brighten up. She said, "I have no husband." What a--a shock that must have been.
He said, "Thou hast said well. You've had five husbands, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. So you said it well."
Listen to this prostitute, ill-famed woman. She knowed more about God than half the preachers in the United States. She never said, "You are Beelzebub, a devil." She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. (Now, listen.) We know, we Samaritans, we know that Christ is coming, Who's called. The Messiah is coming, Who is called the Christ, the Anointed One. (See?) And when He comes this will be the sign that He will show. He will tell us these things. You are a prophet, but we are looking for a Messiah. And when this Messiah comes, He will tell us these things. This will be His sign."


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