<TITLE>17. Par 58-61</TITLE>L-58 "So then, what happened? Then here sets little Zacchaeus up there, and he said, 'You know, Rebekah said He was a prophet. Now, somebody might see me up here and point me out to Him before I get a good chance to tell Him what I think about Him.' So he reached around, and got the limbs, and pulled them all around him, and camouflaged himself, set back in a... you know, like a crow setting back in a--in a tree. Got all back there, and camouflaged himself.
"He had one great big sycamore leaf here. He made that a window. He could raise it up and look, then come back down. See? And directly he heard a noise. (You know, there's something strange. About everywhere Jesus goes, there's a lot of noise.) He heard... He said, 'Well, He must be coming. Lot of noise.'"

L-59 "And after while, here He turns the corner. And when He turns the corner, looks: crowds all around Him, four or five men keeping the people away from Him, and He walks around the corner. He said, 'That little bitty fellow?'"
You know, the Bible said, "There's no beauty we should desire Him." He didn't look like some big king, or priest, or something. He was humble, little fellow, walking along there with His head down, head down He walked right down till He got right under the tree. And here's old Zacchaeus setting up there, you know, holding up this leaf, you know, looking like this.
"And right about the time He got underneath the tree with His head down, He looked up there, and said, 'Zacchaeus, come down. I'm going home with you for dinner.'" Glory.
Was He a prophet? Amen. Sure He was. Not only did He know he was in the tree, but He knowed his name was Zacchaeus. Amen. Glory.

L-60 Must've been Nathanael said, "Just a minute. You remember that time when that old Pharisee went and asked Him down to have dinner with Him?"
"Yeah."
"They didn't invite us, and we couldn't come without an invitation. But He went, and they let Him set in there with unwashed feet. Remember that little old woman took her little Roman denarii and went down there, and bought that alabaster box, and slipped around in there. And she was standing there by His feet. And--and there set Jesus with dirty feet." Oh, it sounds sacrilegious to say it. But they did.

L-61 You know, when you go into their homes there, the first thing they do, they--they take a foot-wash flunky... Now, that's the lowest paid man of the bunch, is a foot-wash flunky. He goes out there, and when a guest comes in, he sets up his feet. And he takes his sandals off and washes his feet, because they had... They walked on a road, and the animals walked on this road, you understand, where the animals was, and--and had got into dust. And--and when they walked, they had a robe on, and it picked up that dust, and it settled on their limbs and things. And, oh, the stink from the animals. And so it--it wasn't--it wasn't nice to go into a home.
So they had a foot-wash flunky. He was the lowest paid man of the bunch. And he'd get out there, and wash their feet, and then--and then make them welcome (You see?), put them on a clean pair of sandals. And Jesus became a foot-wash flunky, the lowest job in the earth. And somebody failed to wash His feet.


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