<TITLE>22. Par 98-102</TITLE>L-98 Philip, when he stood there and heard Jesus speak to Simon, and call him Simon (said, "Your name is Simon. You're the son of Jonas," and never seen him before), he was very persistent. He got a hold of Nathanael. And when Nathanael come, He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile."
He said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?"
Said, "Before Philip called you, when you was under the tree, I saw you."
He got real persistent. He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."

L-99 The little woman at the well, she'd been looking for a Messiah to come. She'd heard all the theologians and back and forth, and she thought she might as well walk the street and be a prostitute, if that's the best they had. And she...
One day she come down to the well to get some water. There set an ordinary Man, looking about fifty years old, I suppose. And she looked at Him. And He asked her to bring Him a drink. And she went into the customs and said, "There's segregation," and so forth.

L-100 But when He said, "Go, get your husband and come here," she said, "I have none."
He said, "You've said truth. You've had five, and the one you have now is not your husband."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, these things will be what He will do."
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
Now, she wasn't according to law supposed to tell a man in the market places anything, because she was an ill-famed woman. But brother, she was persistent, and she persuaded them in her perseverance until she said, "Come, see a Man... Don't set there, don't set here, come see a Man Who's told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah that was promised? Said 'the Lord God shall raise up a prophet like unto me.' This is Him." She was persistent until she got the men out there, and they believed on Him.

L-101 Reminds me of a little story we had down in Mexico, where the Christian Business Men's "Voice" had an article of it here not long ago. We went down there and the... General Valdena was the one who had me down there. And so they got in a little trouble about the Mexican government bringing in a Protestant, and so--by this military force. And so the bishop went over and said, "Sir," said, "you know this man's not a Catholic?"
He said, "No," but said, "I guess he's a reputable person. Thousands come to hear him preach, they say."
He said, "Oh, it's just the ignorant and unlearned that goes out to hear a person like that."
Said, "You've had them down here for five hundred years. Why are they ignorant and unlearned?"

L-102 Guess that was a good shut-up. So they let us have a place out there, and thousands gathered in. And I was to be there about three nights. One night on the platform, I looked, and here come a poor old Mexican brother, blind as he could be, his feet bare and calloused all over, his old hat in his hand, sewed with cords, his trouser legs tore off up there. I looked at him, dusty all over. He was coming along there holding his hat in his hand. He was mumbling off something to the man that was bringing him. When he got close to me, he reached down in his pocket and got out a little crucifix and begin to--to say a "Hail, Mary." I had him to put it up.


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