<TITLE>12. Par 45-46</TITLE>L-45 Let's see about a woman. There was a woman, probably a church member somewhere, and she was let run loose. She may have bobbed hair and so forth too. She was probably the trend of the day. But one day she come up to the well where there was a strange Man setting, a Jew, over against the little panoramic with curtains behind it. And when she come up there...
And she had her way of making a living, and she probably had the--several pieces of the Roman denarii in her pocket then, her little sock that she was carrying it in. And she walked up there to get some water. She'd been out all night. Maybe about eleven o'clock she got up there. I don't know, but let's just say it was that way.
And when she got up there, she saw a Man, ordinary Man, not a priest, not some denominational sign on Him, but just an ordinary Man. And she looked at Him, and He said, "Bring Me a drink."
She said, "Now, You being a Jew, You know that's not right. I'm a Samaritan.
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask..." See, she didn't know by outward appearance. He was just a Man, but He seemed to be very stern in what He said. "If you knew Who you were talking to..." I like that. Like the little woman in her persistency, the little Greek woman that came to Jesus... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Said... He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
It surprised her. She said, "Well, I don't have any husband." See, she lived in a denomination, let them marry and everything else, and remarry, and... See? Said, "I have no husband."
Said, "You--you said the truth. You've had five, and you're living with one now. So he's not yours--your first one was rightly your husband. (See?) You--you--you're living like that."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." What a difference from the scholarly priest that said He was Beelzebub, a fortuneteller, or a devil.
Said, "I perceive that You are a prophet. Now, we know... I've been taught (I am a Greek, or a Samaritan, rather), I've been taught that when Messiah cometh He will do these things. This will be His sign."
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
Right quick she made an investment. She invested. And she run into the city, and she couldn't hold it still. She'd found the pearl of great price. She'd sold out everything else.
Do you know the tradition in them days? It wasn't right for a woman to go into the street, a woman of that type and talk to the men. But stop her. Try to stop her. She'd found something. It was real.

L-46 Like Nathanael. It wasn't ethical of his church for him to follow that Galilean so-called prophet, that they'd pronounced to be a Beelzebub. It wasn't right for him to do it. It wasn't churchy. It wasn't ethical. He'd be churched for it. But stop him. He'd found something real.
This woman found something real. It wasn't right for her to scream this in the streets. She was a woman of ill-fame. She was marked. But she had been forgiven. She'd found something real, and you couldn't stop her. Like putting a fire out on a windy day. She was burning, joy and peace of forgiveness of sins. She didn't want Jacob's well any more. She'd found a fountain bubbling up with Eternal Life in it. She left her bucket there, and said, "I'm through with this thing. I want an investment in that." What a smart woman she was. Sure. She found something to make an investment in.


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