<TITLE>12. Par 46-48</TITLE>L-46 And he said, "When Philip came to me, I was back there under the tree a praying. And when I was praying for God to send the Deliverer... And when Philip walked up to me, and said, 'We have found the Messiah. We've got Him. We--we know Who it is. It's the Son of Joseph, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph,' I doubted him."
"I said, 'Now, wait a minute. Nothing good could come from Nazareth, from that group of people.' But he encouraged me. He said, 'You come, see for yourself.'"
Now, that's a good answer. Don't stay home and criticize it. Come, take your Bible, and search it, and see if it's right, for it's your soul, you know.
So then he said, "We come up to the meeting. And as soon as we got to where Jesus of Nazareth was, He looked me straight in the face and said, 'Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile.'"
"And I said, 'Rabbi, when did You ever know me?'"
"He said, 'Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree I saw you.' And it was very convincing to me. That settled it. And brethren, you all know what I did. I fell right down at His feet, and said, 'Thou art the Son of God; You are the King of Israel,' because I knowed Scripturally that was the Messiah that we were looking for. I knowed it by the sign that He told us."

L-47 Must have been Andrew said, "Just a moment. Let all of us think of something for a few minutes. Do you remember the day that we were going down to Jericho?"
"Yes, I remember it."
"And you remember some strange thing: He had need to go by Samaria?"
"Yes. We remember that."
"And He got up there to this city, Sychar. And when He did, He sent us into the city to buy vittles. And you know how they treated us in the city. And when we come back up to where He was, we were astonished. Our Master was being entertained by a ill-famed woman."
Now, in them days they had them marked. You could tell them. Nowadays they're not. But they could tell they were ill-famed the way she was doing.
"And we were astonished, you know, brethren, that our Master would be caught with such a person, an ill-famed person like this woman was. Why, she was nothing but a--just a common street woman. And here our Master was, out there by Himself by the side of this well, entertaining this woman. So we were all astonished."
And all of them said, "That's right. That's right."
So he said, "We moved around behind the bushes to find out what He was talking about, and we heard Him when He said, 'Woman, bring Me a drink.'"
And we thought, 'Now, isn't that strange, that our Master would ask the service of a prostitute?' (That shows what He was to me. He was God. Sure. He asks whoever... Every mortal, no matter what condition you're in, whosoever will...) 'Isn't it strange,' we thought, 'that our Master would ask this ill-famed woman to do Him a favor?' And we were surprised."
"And we found out that quickly she spoke back to Him, and she said, 'Sir, it's not customary, You being a Jew, asking me a--a woman of Samaria.'"

L-48 And Mark started to say something. Andrew said, "Keep still just a minute." So then he said, "Listen," said, "you remember what He said?
"He said, 'If you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd give you waters you don't come here to draw.' And they carried the conversation for a while about their religion."
"And then for the first time we thought our Master was caught in a trap, for our Master said to the woman, 'Go, get your husband and come here.'"
"And quickly she turned and looked Him in the face and said, 'I don't have a husband.'"


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