<TITLE>18. Par 62-65</TITLE>L-62 And then, the next thing they do... The Palestinian sun, them direct rays was real hot, so it'd scorch their neck and face. And they'd give them some ointment, and they put it on there, and washed their face with it like that. And it cooled--had a cooling, like menthol. And it come out of a rose bud they found way high in the mountains. The queen of Sheba brought a bunch of it up to Israel when she come up in Solomon's day. And then they'd wipe it off.
And then they... Then the next thing, they'd kiss their--their guest welcome. (Come here, brother.) Here's the way they did it. They'd take their hands like this, and when they come in, they was welcome. They'd take one another like this, go... And then they changed hands like this, right here, and on this side. And they still do it: Kiss them on the neck, make them welcome (See?), kiss welcome.

L-63 Well, here set Jesus. Here's this old--big old rabbi, standing up there, you know, with all of his wine, and--and all of his fine food out there. And the poor people, they couldn't come. And they'd smell that aroma, baked ram--lamb, you know, and oh, my, how they wanted to come. But they couldn't come. Mouths watering...
Oh, them rabbis. They made money, and they could put on a big feed. So... And Jesus had come in, and all the rest of them was welcome. And He'd left His busy schedule to come, and they didn't even make Him welcome: let Him set there dirty.
And you know what old Rabbi Levinski said over there? He said... And this woman, she looked over there, and she come and she seen Him setting over there. She said, "Oh, Who is that? Do you know Who that is?"
And someone said, "That's supposed to be that prophet. He isn't a prophet. Rabbi's going to prove today that He's not a prophet. That's what He had Him down here for."

L-64 You can remember, when one of them kind of guys invites Jesus, he's got a trump up his sleeve somewhere. He's got a card there somewhere. He had no business, he had no dealings with Jesus. It was a drawing card or something. So he had all the rest of the priests to come in. He was going to show that He wasn't a prophet.
And so Jesus come anyhow. No matter how much He--that you're trying to do something about it, or trying to show Him up, if you invite Him, He will come. He always keeps His appointments. He never fails. So there He was.

L-65 There He set in there that night--that day. And--and this little woman said, "If that's Who that is, that's that Man. I believe He's a prophet, and He was the One forgive Mary Magdalene, that woman just as bad as me, forgive her sins."
Down the city she went, and up a little old alley, and up a little creaky steps in a little old shack; reached down there and she pulled out what little money she'd collected on her ill-way of living. She pulled this out, this money bag. And she said, "I can't do it. He--he's a prophet. And He'd know how I got this money. He... But it's all I can do. It's all I got. And I must see Him. I'm a sinner. I must ask Him to forgive me."


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