<TITLE>36. Par 266-271</TITLE>L-266 Now, I want to ask you something. Now, if... Now, look, there was a little woman. You people that won't be in the prayer line (See?), you people that won't be in the prayer line, now, there's a little woman, one time, that she wasn't going to be in the prayer line either, and she had a blood issue. But she believed that that was a godly Person. Now, listen close now; don't miss it. She believed that Jesus was the Christ, and she said, "If I can only touch the hem of His garment..." Now, she didn't have any Scripture for that (See?), no more than just maybe like Elijah taken--or taken his staff and laying on the child, or something (See?), or touching Elijah's bones after he was dead.
But she believed if she touched Him she'd get what she asked for. She slipped through the crowd and reached over. Now, if anybody was ever in Palestine, they have an underneath garment and a top garment, and it swings loose. That's the reason they have feet-washing and things, the dust picks up on their feet. And she touched the border of His garment. Now, if she touched my coat, like that, I wouldn't feel it. It hangs right close to me. But she touched down at the hem, the border, which probably was that far from His feet, or, His body. She touched the border of His garment, and went back and set down, or whatever she did.
Jesus stopped. And remember, all the crowd had their arms... "Hello, Rabbi. Glad to see You. Are you the Prophet? We--we're glad to see You." "Oh, You hypocrite." "You're a fine Man." Oh, just different expressions.

L-268 Now, listen real close. Then this little woman, she touched His garment, and she went back because she was satisfied she'd touched God. Jesus stopped, said, "Who touched Me?"
Peter rebuked Him, said, "Oh..." Said to Him, "Why do You say a thing like that?"
He said, "But I perceive that I've gotten weak; virtue's gone from Me." He looked all around over the audience till He found that little woman, and He told her about her blood issue, and it had stopped. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen"--Ed.] Now, now, now hold that. Now, you say, "amen" to that, that means "so be it."
Now, notice now, does the Bible say, to you Christian readers, that Jesus Christ now is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? How many knows the Bible said that? Well, if He's the same yesterday, today, forever, wouldn't He act the same way He did then? Well, then, if you setting out there would touch Him up there, and if I be His representative, His voice here now, wouldn't He say the same thing that He did then? Doesn't that sound Scriptural? Isn't it right? See? How you know you touched Him if He didn't act the same? See? "The works that I do shall you do also."

L-271 All right, now you without the prayer cards, you just pray and say, "Lord Jesus, I didn't get here in time to get a prayer card, but I--I'm praying to You, and I believe what this man said is the Truth. So I'll... Will You please just let me touch Your garment, Lord Jesus? You're my High Priest. I ain't looking at that little baldheaded man stand up there on the platform. I'm looking to You, and I'm touching You, and I'm believing that You're going to make me well. So I'm touching You; You speak to Brother Branham and do the same thing here like You did to that woman. And I'm going to believe You with all my heart." Will you do that? How many will do that, raise your hand, say, "I--I'm going to do it." All right, you just pray.
Now here's the place you put your faith to work. You believe it; don't you doubt it. You believe it with all of your heart. Amen.


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