<TITLE>12. Par 47-49</TITLE>L-47 Oh, I can hear him then say, "Excuse me, Philip. I just couldn't let you go ahead. I just had to tell it myself." See? When it happens to you, you like to tell it yourself. That's just it. There's something about it, you get the joy out of telling it. What a testimony meeting. And Andrew just trying to get up, and Simon trying to hold him down, you know, he said, "Me next," and up he jumps.
Said, "Brethren, let me give a testimony for all of us. You remember the day when He told us He was going down to Jericho?"
"Yes, I remember going down to Jericho."
"And how that He need go by Samaria? How we wondered in our heart, what's He going way up around Samaria for, instead of going right down to Jericho? But He said He had need to go by."
One of them said, "Yeah, sure. I remember."
"You remember there--down there at the pool of Bethesda that day, when that man was healed laying there, and that great multitude of people? And He said over there, 'Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing?' See, it must've been that He was led to go up around there, and we wondered why He would go up to those Samaritans."

L-48 "Then we came to Sychar, and we--He set down like He was tired. And He said, 'Go on into the city and get something to eat for us. And we slipped in, you remember, and what... how we... what happened. And on our road back we was surprised to see this woman, marked of ill-fame." You know what I mean. Them days, well, they had to be marked if they were--they were bad women.
So they said, "We saw that woman, and our Master talking to her. What a strange thing, our Pastor talking to a woman like that."
"There she was, standing there with--with all of her curls fixed up on her head, and--and she had this pot of water, and--and going to get some water. And she started to let it down, well, we said, 'Oh, oh. She's not one of our race. He will really tell her off. And look, she's marked. Let's see what He's going to say to her, because she's no good. You can see her mark she wears, that she's branded. So... And she don't even belong to our congregations at all. She's not even our race of people. So He will really tell it to her. You just watch and see.' And we slipped up behind the bushes and listened real close."

L-49 "And Simon, I couldn't make you keep your head down. So then, you just wanted to look over the top of somebody's shoulder. And so then we watched a little while, and the woman hooked the hooks into the--the pot, and she started with the windle to let it down, and He said, 'Bring Me a drink.'"
"And she turned. She had--she'd never noticed Him. Probably she'd been out all night, and she was sleepy. And so she never noticed Him setting there."
And He was just a middle-aged Jew. He wasn't but thirty years old. But I--I think according to Scripture, they said He looked about fifty, because they said, "You say that you saw Abraham? And you're a man not over fifty years old?" So it must have been His ministry wore Him a little, you know. And He said--and He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." That's right. That little earthly body had nothing to do with it. So He must have looked about like a middle-aged Man, setting up against the wall there. And He said..."
"And she said, 'Sir, it's not customary--you don't realize that--that we have segregation here, that--that You being a Jew, would ask anything of me, a woman of Samaria.'"
"Remember what He said? He said, 'But if you knew Who you were talking to...'"


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