<TITLE>12. Par 44-47</TITLE>L-44 And he said, "All of you remember when we went down... was going to Jericho. And the next morning, it was strange after we got up and put our coats on again, and He said, 'I have need go by Samaria.' We thought that was strange, how He'd go up around Samaria, instead of going right to Jericho. And we walked..."
"And do you remember? We left without breakfast, and we got hungry. And about eleven o'clock in the day, we come to this city called Sychar, and we--we set down there by the well. And He sent us all away, and we went down into the city. Remember, what a time, when they said, 'Are you one of them holy roll--or, you one of them?'"
So I oughtn't to have said that, maybe. You see?
But "'Are--are you one of them with that Galilean group out there? Are you one of them?' And so, they wouldn't even give us nothing to eat. Oh, my. It was bad. And we slipped back out."

L-45 "And we noticed a strange thing. There was a young, pretty woman coming up towards the well, with a pot for her water setting on her shoulder, her head. And as she walked up, we seen her set the pot down, and put the hooks in it, getting ready to let down the windle. And we noticed that our Lord was setting with His head bowed. We noticed His eyes when it raised up, and we noticed that she was marked a prostitute, ill-famed. She wouldn't have been out at the pump at that time of day. The virgins go out early. So then, we knew that she was a woman of ill fame."
And we just thought, you know... each one of us said, 'Let's see Him run her away from that well.' You remember how carnal we were, brethren? We just see Him run her away from that well. So we hid in the bushes. You all remember it?"
"Yeah. Amen. We remember."

L-46 "And we was going to watch our Master run this woman of ill fame out of His Presence. So she started to let down the--the water kettle, down to get the water, and our Lord said to her, 'Woman, bring Me a drink.' My. You remember how we looked at one another? That would be a strange, how that a woman of that type could be asked to do a favor for the Lord."
But you know, God works in mysterious ways. He loves the worst of us. If He hadn't, I--I wouldn't be here tonight. And I'm sure we all feel that way. Yes.
"And when... she was surprised. She looked around, and she said, 'Sir, you are a Jew, and I'm a woman of Samaria. And we don't have any dealings with one another. Why would You get fresh with me, ask me a question like that?'"

L-47 "And He said, 'Woman, if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink.' And we wondered, what was He trying to do, and why was He trying to use a woman like this to do something with? Said, 'If you knew Who you were speaking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I would give you waters that you wouldn't have to come here to draw.'"
Oh, my. I wish... Aren't you glad that you got that same invitation?
"And we all wondered, as we was standing hiding in the bushes. Matthew, you remember, you wrote that down."
"Oh, yes. I've got it. Don't worry." I'm reading it tonight.
So he said, "You--you wrote that down?"
"Yes."
"We was all hid back there in the bushes."
"Uh-huh."
"And they got into conversation and--about where people ought to worship."
And you know, they're still in that conversation. One said, "You have to worship--worship in the Methodist church."
The other one said, "The Baptist church."
The other one said, "The Catholic church."
And the other one said, "The Pentecostal church."


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