<TITLE>13. Par 121-127</TITLE>L-121 "So I just thought I would go down and see who this young Fellow was, stirring up all this emotion down there." And said, "People is getting healed by Him, so I thought I'd go down. And one day when we got the--the nets all washed and laid out on the bank, He came down to preach. And I got me a chunk, and set down upon a piece of driftwood, up on the bank. And when He begin to speak, I--I knew that there was something different about this Man, because He talked like a Man that knowed what He was talking about.

L-122 "And when I got up close to Him, He looked me right in the face, and He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas.'" He said, "That take... That was enough for me. Not only did He prove to be the Prophet, He knew me before He ever saw me. He knew me, and He also knew that godly old father of mine, that told me that would be the sign of the Messiah. That settled it for me." Oh, my! How he was getting all excited, too!

L-123   And must have been Philip jumped up, about that time, said, "Let me testify. Wait a minute. Let me, let me say something." Said, "Now, Brother Nathanael, don't you blush." He said, "I was standing there at that time, brethren, if you all remember. And I seen that done. And I knowed that was what was the--was the sign of Messiah. And you know, it hadn't been too long since Philip and I, there, had been studying that in the Scripture. So I run around the mountain, over there about fifteen miles, and told, found Philip under the tree, praying. And I said, 'Philip, come see Who we have found, the Messiah, and the One that Moses spoke of; and Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph.' And, Nathanael, remember what you said?"
"Yeah, I remember. I sure do."

L-124 "You said, 'Could any good thing come out of Nazareth now?' And I said, 'Come, see.' And when we went around, remember us talking? And I told you about Him telling Simon that, and told you that He might tell you who you were. And you walked up there, said, 'Now, I'll have to see that, to believe it.' And remember how you walked up, with your hands behind you? And as soon as you got into His Presence, you know what happened?"
"I sure do."
"He said, 'Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile.'"

L-125 "And I remember how that deflated you. And you said, 'Rabbi, when did You ever know me? And here I am. I just been brought to this meeting. And how did You ever know me? You've never seen me, in Your life. How would You ever know me?' He said, 'Why, before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you.' Oh, I remember what you said. Run up to Him and said, 'Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel.'"

L-126   Must have been Andrew said, "Now it's my time to testify. Do you remember that time when we--we thought we were going down to Jericho? And we know, down at Jericho, how that old blind man come out there that day. And was... We couldn't even hear him screaming. He was hollering, going on. And--and his faith stopped our Lord, and he got his sight.

L-127 "And you remember up at Samaria, when we stopped up there, to go down and get some food? And--and while we were gone... Wanted Him to go down with us and get something to eat, and He wouldn't do it. He just wouldn't go. He said, 'I have food to eat that you know nothing about.' So when we all slipped back, we seen Him talking to an--an ill-famed woman. She was marked. And we thought, 'What's our Master doing up there at the well, talking to this ill-famed woman?' So you remember, we slipped over, around, behind the bush, listened to what they said. And He said to her, 'Woman, bring Me a drink.' And we was surprised, to think that our Master would talk to a woman like that." See?


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