<TITLE>14. Par 58-61</TITLE>L-58 "On the road back, do you remember when we was coming up in the bushes back there, we heard Him talking. And there was a woman marked ill-famed, and she was talking to Him. Very unusual for an honorable man to talk to a woman of that type. And we slipped up behind the bushes to find out what He would say to her. And I can just hear Him... What we all said, 'Watch Him tell her off. He will sure tell her where she's at. He will tell her because she's such a woman she is. I imagine He will really scold her good.'"
"And you remember how we was all getting ready to hear Him scold her, when He said to her, 'Bring Me a drink.' We thought that's strange, that our Master would associate with a person like that of low degree--our Master. Remember how we all looked astonished at one another? So we just snugged down behind the bushes to see what He would say."
"And as the conversation went on talking... And after while they talked about religion, and so He said to her, 'Go, get your husband and come here,' and she said, 'I have no husband.'"

L-59 "And you remember what we all thought? That's one time we saw our Master caught in a trap. He had been wrong. 'I have no husband.' And you remember how breathless we was, brethren, all of us? Our Master has told her that she had a husband, and here she flatly denies it. 'I don't have any husband.' And we looked at each other in astonishment, how we wasn't able to set quiet just for a moment." That's the matter with the church today. It can't set quiet a minute. See?
"So then we see our Master as He stood modestly with His head down, and looked up to her, and said, 'Woman, thou hast said the truth. Thou art truthful. You've told Me the truth.' And then we wondered. Here now, He's fishing around some other way about it. He said... first said, 'You have a husband,' and she said, 'I do not have a husband.' And now He admits that she's told the truth. Then you remember how we felt, brethren?"
All of them said, "Yes, we remember. Set still. Don't rock the boat. (See?) We're way out here now." And so they all got all excited. "Yes, I remember that"--all of them talking.
And said, "You remember, then, the next words? 'Thou has said the truth, for thou has had five husbands. And the one that you're now living with is not yours.'"
Then we watched the respond to the woman. And her countenances dropped, her eyes sparkled, something within her caught fire, and said, 'Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.' Now, we wondered how that ill-famed Samaritan cast-out woman would have the knowledge to know that this Man was a prophet.

L-60 "And as He went on talking, she said, 'We know that Messiah when He comes, He's going to tell us these things. But Who are You?'
"And He said, 'I'm He that speaks with you.' And we find that she..."
"We couldn't hold our peace no more. We were so happy to see that our Master was true, and His prophecies was right, till we rang out with joy, and run up before Him. And she left the water pot and ran into the city. And you remember, all the men of the city came out there."

L-61 Now, actually that woman was not allowed to do that. No. She... If you know the eastern trend, and the custom, no one would listen to her. She was an ill-famed woman. No one would pay any attention to her. She couldn't even go out there. That's the reason she was out there at eleven o'clock. She couldn't go out with the decent women. Here they're all together, but there she couldn't do it. And so, there...
But when she had met Jesus, and had got a drink out of that well, somebody's going to listen to her, whether it's lawful or not. That's the same way it is now. The person that ever gets a drink from that well, somebody's going to listen; that's all. Whether the church tells you to set down or not, something's going to happen.


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