<TITLE>14. Par 137-151</TITLE>L-137   And so we find this woman coming up to get her water, and she started to let down the pot. Let's think that she was thinking of the nights before. And she let, started to let the windle down, as she hooked the hooks over the--the arms of the vase, to let it down to get the water.

L-138 And she heard a Man say, "Bring Me a drink." And the--the well there, if you was ever there, it's a little panoramic, something like this here tonight. And there is vines grows over the wall. And so this Jew was setting over against the wall.

L-139 And she looked over there and she saw this Jew setting there against the wall. And she said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask a Samaritan anything. We have no dealings with one another." Otherwise, there was a segregation. "And we have no dealings, one with another. And You being a Man, and ask me, a Samaritan woman, to bring You a drink."

L-140   And He was an ordinary Jew. He wasn't dressed any different. He was a Man. I think they said, in Saint John 6, He was only about thirty-two years old. But He looked, must have looked fifty, 'cause they said, "You're a Man not over fifty years old, and yet You say You 'seen Abraham.'"
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."

L-141 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "... don't, do not come here to draw." "Why," she said, "the well is deep, and what have You to do with? How can you draw?"

L-142   Said, "The waters that I give is waters in the soul." And the conversation went on. Now, you have to take my word for this, He was contacting her spirit. See?

L-143 Now, she was a woman, one woman coming out of Samaria. And said, "Our fathers drank of this well, and--and You say You got waters that's greater than this?" And she said, "And You say, 'Worship at Jerusalem,' and our fathers worshipped in this mountain," and so forth.

L-144 The conversation kept going on. After while, when, He found out just what her trouble was. How many knows what her trouble was? Sure. He found where her trouble was. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."

L-145 Now, remember, what's He doing? Identifying Himself to the Samaritans now. That's how He done it to the--the Jews. Now, watch what this Samaritan is going to say.
Said, "Go get your husband and come here."
"Why," she said, "I have no husband."

L-146 He said, "You've told the truth, saying you 'have no husband,' because that you've had five, and the one you're living with now is not yours. And you've said the truth."

L-147   Now watch that woman, that Samaritan woman, her respond to that. She knowed more about God than half the people of the United States, see, certainly, see, including ministers, sometime. Yeah. See?

L-148 Look at those priests standing there. When they seen that done, they said, "This Man is a fortuneteller. He is Beelzebub," trying to figure out some way that He did it, some trick, some hoax. See?

L-149 But this little woman said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Watch. "We know, we know that there is a Messiah coming, called Christ. And when He comes, this is what He will do." Amen.
He said, "I am He, that speaks to you."

L-150 That was enough. She knew that was. Watch what she did. She rushed into the city, and she told the men of the city, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things I done. Isn't this the mark of the very Messiah? When have we ever had it since the time? Here is the real Messiah."

L-151   That's how He identified himself with the Jews. That's how He identified Himself with the Samaritans. Now, that was the end of their time.


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