<TITLE>13. Par 48-50</TITLE>L-48 "But you know what He said? 'The true worshippers worship Him in spirit and truth, and the Father seeketh such.' And we wondered then, what He was trying to do, but now we understand. He was trying to contact her spirit. We realized then why He had need to go up."
"You know, one time He told us... when He raised Lazarus up there, He said the Father had sent Him away. And you remember He told that man at--at the--that day, when he was... All of us was trying to touch His garments, and He went through that great multitude there at the pool of Bethesda. And He turned around and told them, 'Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing.' So we understand now. But then..."
"And then we noticed that that woman was getting--setting oh, on the well, holding the pot on her hand yet, to get the water in. And He said to her, 'Woman, go, get your husband and come here.'"
"And you know what she said that time, Bartholomew? How did He know she had a husband?"

L-49 "And the woman was surprised, and her--her pretty hair fell down around her face, and her big bright eyes shined, and she said, 'Sir, I have no husband.' And we all thought, 'Oh, my. Something's wrong now.'"
"And to our surprise, He said, 'You've told the truth.' Then we were surprised, wasn't we, brethren? We didn't know. He said, 'Because you've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband.'"
"Now, we wondered what kind of reaction was coming from this. And she looked straight into His face and said, 'Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.'" [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
And about that time Nathanael said, "Yes, I thought how much different it was from our rabbi. She seemed to know more about God than the rabbi did, because he said He was a devil. Seems like the woman, we knew then, had been reading the Scriptures. We wondered what next she was going to say."

L-50 "She said, 'Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet,' and we looked at one another. A woman of that kind of a caliber? She's surely been studying the Scrolls, and yet she's not a Jew. Watch what she says now."
"'We know that Messiah is called Christ. He's coming, and He's going to be a prophet, because Moses said so. When He comes, He's going to tell us these things. But Who are You? You must be a prophet.'"
"Jesus said, 'I'm He that speaks to you.'"
"And you remember? Upon that she dropped that pot, and took out into the city just as hard as she could go, screaming, 'Come, see a Man Who's told me the things I've done.'"
Now, you people who believe, to read the Scriptures, doesn't the Scriptures say that that is the sign of the Messiah? Now, let me stop the testimony, and come down here just a minute, here to--to Columbia. Did you notice? He never did that before any of the Gentiles, just Jews and Samaritans. That's right. And there's only three races of people on the earth, if you believe your Bible. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. That's where we all originated: Jew, Samaritan, and Gentile.


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