<TITLE>15. Par 141-151</TITLE>L-141   Now we find out that the thing that identified Him exactly being the--the Messiah, was the prophet, because Messiah means "the anointed One." And anointed with what? The Word. The Word anointed is just like a seed with water on It, in the right ground, It brings forth exactly Its promise. That's the reason He said, "Who can, who can condemn Me? Who can tell Me that I... If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. And this is the Word. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. If I do not what this Word promised for this generation, then don't believe Me," He said.

L-142 Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful, today, if the church could say that same thing, we could stand there? This, if we do not do the works of God, then it isn't God. And everywhere God is, supernatural takes place, because He is supernatural. See, He is--He is a Spirit. God is a Spirit.

L-143   Now we find out that He is going down to Jericho, but He had need to go by Samaria. Now, Samaria is around the mountain. Jericho is down at the bottom of the hill. But on His road down, instead of going right down to Jericho, He goes around by Samaria. I wonder why? And He comes to a city called Sychar. And they... sent the disciples in to get some victuals, food.

L-144 And while they were in to buy this food, He sat down by the well. And it was a well, like a little panoramic, like, in a public gathering place for the people coming after their water. And it is still there today. And vines growed over the wall, and Jesus was sitting over against the wall.

L-145   And as He set there, there was a young lady come out from the city. We would want to call her, today, a woman of ill fame. And maybe the child was drove to that, and, she, maybe her parents turned her loose on the street. And you know what I mean. And I think the lady, the woman, really something had happened; we're not told in the Scripture, but watch what taken place to that woman's heart. See? She come out to get water, and it must have been along about noon.

L-146 Usually the maids, yet today, go out early of a morning and get their water, and put it up on their heads, in their great earthen vessels, and they pack it to do their drinking water and their housework, and whatever they're going to do.

L-147   And this young woman come out around noon. Why? She couldn't be associated with the rest of the people, the--the good people. She could not be caught among them. They would shun her, and she felt bad about it, so she'd stay back. She knowed what kind of a life that she was living, so she stayed away from the religious people.

L-148 Now we find, as she come out, she perhaps never noticed Who was sitting over against the wall.

L-149 And those pitchers they have, that I call them. They're... Some of them call them buckets. They got handles. They're made out of--of clay. And they have a windle, and just the two hooks that goes in. They let them down into the well. And being... topple them over and they get full of water, and windle it back up. And they pack it on their head, and on their hips, as they walk.

L-150   And this woman was just about to maybe hook the hooks over the--the pitcher, and was just about to let it down, and she heard a Voice, said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she looked over to see Who it was. And there sat perhaps, more or less, like a middle-aged Jew sitting there. And He wasn't but about thirty-something years old, thirty-two or thirty-three years old, at the time.

L-151 And, but He must have looked a little older than what He was, because He had been called, Saint John 6, to being fifty. Said, "You're a man that's not over fifty years old, and You say You've seen Abraham? Now we know You're crazy. You are mad," which means crazy. "You got a devil."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." See?


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