<TITLE>16. Par 62-66</TITLE>L-62 Now, I've been in the orients, and preached in there to the... well, the biggest audience I ever had was five hundred thousand. That was at Bombay, there (See?), and--and there... And I--I--I know their customs. Now, the immoral and moral can't associate together. So the virgin... Well, they could none of them come out there while the virgins was there, so she had to come out later. About eleven o'clock she came out, and maybe she had her hair all done up on top of her head, and--and she was... Maybe been out all night too, you know... And she came out to get a bucket of water.
And their buckets are pots. They got handles on them. And they can set a... They look like to me they hold about three to five gallon. They can set one of those pots on top of their head, and put one on each hip, and walk and talk to one another just like ladies can, and never spill a drop of water. I don't know how they do it, just go along, talking and laughing, them little bitty old girls about that high, just packing their--about fifteen gallon of water, going on.
And so they--they have a windle there, and they take these hooks and put it right around these handles, let the... Like a pitcher, we'd call it. Let it down into the well and get the water, and then windle it back up with the windle.

L-63 Then, this woman come out to let her--her bucket down to get the water. And when she did, she heard a man setting over kind of a panoramic like this. It's a well, still there. And said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
And she looked. And there was a segregation in the land between the Jews and Gen--or the Jews and Samaritans. So they said... This woman said, "Sir, it's not customary for you, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, of such a thing."

L-64 Now, He just looked like an ordinary Jew. He was dressed like an ordinary man. I don't believe you have to dress funny and be different to be a Christian. I don't believe you have to act funny. I believe you just--just be a person. Just be a Christian (that's all), and nothing peculiar. It's just something inside of you has took place, you see: happiness, joy, and peace, and satisfaction, and long-suffering, gentleness, peace. People can talk about you, it don't bother you a bit. See, you... That's fruits of the Spirit.

L-65 So then this man was setting over there, a little robe on, just like the rest of them had and dressing just like the ordinary man, but... He was about thirty years old, but He must've looked a little older. You know, in Saint John 6, they said, "You mean to tell me that you saw Abraham, and you're not over fifty years old?" See, they judged Him about fifty. His work might've done that.
And He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." So that cut the feathers down again, you know. But there He looked about maybe fifty years old, setting reared back there, and said...
"Why," she said, "it's not customary for you Jews to ask we Samaritans such things. We have no dealings with one another."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."

L-66 And you know, then they got the dis--got the mix-up there, you know, about where she worshipped. Now, watch this woman. She said, "Sir," she said, "our father Jacob..." Now, see, that was the Jewish father too. "Our father Jacob dug this well. He and his cattle drank from it." And he gave it to Joseph actually, what he did. But said, "This is a... Our fathers drank from this well. And You say You got water that's better than this?" and so forth. Then after while...


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