<TITLE>14. Par 60-62</TITLE>L-60 And so this woman, she couldn't come out with the rest of the women (See?), because she was marked. In our country it's not marked; but there it is marked. They... She can't associate with other women as long as she lives like that. So she couldn't come the same time the virgins come.
So she come out about eleven o'clock. And there's a well there, and a windle, and she had the... The hooks goes in this big jar... It's got hooks on it. We call it a jar; they called it a bucket then, I suppose. Put it on it, and just started to let it down. And she heard Someone say, "Woman, bring Me a drink," and she looks over against the wall. And there set kind of a middle-aged Jew.
Now, we know that He was really, according to Scripture, He was only about, not quite thirty-three, but He must've looked a little old. You know in St. John the 6th chapter, they told Him, said, "You're a man not over fifty years old, and you say you have seen Abraham? Now, we know you got a devil."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." See, see? He looked fifty according to that, but His--His work might've had a great pull on Him.
And He was setting over against the well, said, "Bring Me a drink."

L-61 Well, the woman--thinking nothing, you know--probably a woman type of that, she said, "Sir, it's not custom for You, a Jew, to ask me, a Samaritan woman, for anything, 'cause we have no dealings with one another," segregation. See?
And He let them know right quick that there was no segregation with God, so... And so, He spoke to her and said, "If you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I'd bring you water you don't come here to draw."
She said, "The well's deep. And You have..."
What was He doing? Now, He's contacting her spirit. See? Now, He's catch... Now, He said He had need to go up there. The Father sent Him, so He had need go by there. Now, here's the subject--not knowing what He's going to do, 'cause St. John 5:19 said He did nothing till the Father showed Him.

L-62 But now He's got to find what's this woman... Perhaps the Father had showed him to go up there, and now here He is. He don't know what to do, but here comes a woman out. Now, He's got to contact her spirit. Oh, I hope you see it. And so, then He talks to her, carries a conversation.
And finally He--they got talking about the places to worship, and their different tribes or denominations, and so forth. And He said, "Oh, the Father seeketh such to worship Him in Spirit and Truth." So finally, He found what her trouble was. And He said to her, "Go, get your husband, and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
Said, "You've said well, for you've had five, and the one you're living with is not yours." My.
Look. Look at the difference between this ill-famed woman and them priests. Them priests, when that was done, they said, "He's Beelzebub, a fortuneteller."
But this little ill-famed woman, she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Oh, we, we Samaritans, we know there's coming a Messiah Who's called the Christ. And when He comes this will be His sign. That's what He will do."


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