<TITLE>13. Par 135-144</TITLE>L-135 Now we find Him going up to this city of Sychar, and--and it was along about noontime. And the disciples went away into the city, to buy some food. Victuals, it's called in the Scripture. And while they were gone, Jesus waited.

L-136 If you've ever been there, it's kind of a panoramic like this; a well, or the city well, public, outside the city. It still stands today. And the people come out and get their water, and go back into the city. And they carry it on their head, jugs. And the women can put about a five-gallon jug on their head, and put one on each hip and can walk along, talking with women just as women can do, and--and never spill a drop of water. I--I don't see how they can do it, but they--they do it, such a perfect balance, talking and talking like ladies do as they walk along, with these jugs on, about fifteen gallons of water, walking along like that, talking. And these women, because... Still they do the same thing just like they did then, and these women come out to the well to get their water.

L-137   Now there was, along about eleven o'clock or twelve, there was a woman of ill fame, kind of you know what I mean, a--a red-light woman come out to the well to get some water, and she started to let down the--the waterpot. They have a--a windle, and two hooks that goes over this jar, or bucket, and they let it into the well, and it turns sideways when it hits the water, and they windle this water back up. And she was just getting ready to let the--the jug down, when she heard somebody, said, "Bring Me a drink." And she looked, and she saw a--a Jew sitting over against the wall, where the vine hang over the wall, and He was sitting over there. He--He must have been kind of a middle-age Man, or looked middle-age.

L-138   I think He looked a little older than what He really was. Because, we find out in Saint John 6, that the discussion come about drinking water at the... in the wilderness, and so forth, and--and how they was enjoying the bread, representing the manna. And Jesus said, "I am that Rock that was in the wilderness."

L-139 And they said, "You're a Man not over fifty," see, and He was only thirty. "Thou art a Man not over fifty." His great strain must have broke His human part down, and He might have been graying a little, or something. Said, "You're a Man not over fifty, and say that You've 'seen Abraham'? Now we know You're mad, or crazy."

L-140 And He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." They was only looking at the man. It was what was in there speaking out. And "I AM" was in the wilderness with Moses, in the burning bush.

L-141   And there we find that He looked a little aged. And, He, she saw this middle-age Jew sitting there, maybe a man a passed age which would flirt with such a woman, and she said, "It's not customary, You being a Jew, to ask me, a woman of Samaria, for a favor. We have no dealing." In other words, "We have a segregation here, and we don't... we have no dealing."

L-142 Quickly He let her know. Now He said, talked with her. And she said, "Now you Jews say in Jerusalem you worship, and, or we worship in this mountain," and so forth, and about how deep the well was, and He had nothing to draw with.

L-143 And, the conversation, now you'll have to take my word here for this, what He was doing, see.

L-144   The Father, in Saint John 5:19, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Now according to His Own Word. And He can't lie, and be God. According to His Own Word, He never performed one miracle until God showed Him in a vision, what to do. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise. See, the Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto."


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