<TITLE>12. Par 129-145</TITLE>L-129 And he heard the priest saying, "Hey! Hey, You, You going up the hill there! Did--did--did... We hear that You raise the dead. We got a whole graveyard full of them up here. If You be the Messiah, if You be the Messiah, come up here and raise these dead."

L-130 You know, that same devil still lives, see, in the form of religion, the same way. See?

L-131 "If You be the Messiah, we... You raise the dead; we got a graveyard full of them up here. Come." And, oh, everybody screaming. One hollering, "Hosanna to the Prophet!" Another one hollering this, that, or the other. Such a confusion!

L-132 This old blind man thought, "Oh, I missed Him. He come out down there, and I thought He'd come here. I've been put in the wrong place." And he got to screaming. He thought, "If He is the Word, He is God; He has got to be." So, "O Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me!" In that hour of distress, he called out.

L-133   Now Jesus, if you'll mark it here, was at Jericho. Where they said he was setting, he was a hundred and fifty yards from where Jesus was. With thousands of people rushing around Him, He couldn't have heard that man's cry. No. But He felt it. He stopped.

L-134 I want to preach, one of these nights: "And then Jesus stopped." Oh! "And then Jesus stooped." Oh!

L-135 But when Jesus stopped, what was it? He called him. "The Master has come. Don't be weary," said the disciples, "He calleth thee. He is calling you." Called him out from that crowd.
He does the same thing now. Does it soak in? See?

L-136 "The Master has come and has called for you." And He is calling from--from blindness to light, from darkness to light. And He called him, passed from death to Life. "The Master has come and He calls for you." And when He called him, He give him back his sight.

L-137   The little woman with the blood issue, one time, up on the hill, had spent all of her money, with the doctors. She no doubt had sold the--the team. They had sold the--the farm, had it mortgaged. They had spent all they could with the physicians, none of them done her any good. She constantly got worse and worse. The blood wouldn't stop. Constantly, on and on it went, she got deeper and deeper.

L-138 And one day, while setting there knitting, up on the hill from where she lived, she looked down into the valley, and she seen a boat come in. Everybody begin to run, "Hosanna to the Prophet!"

L-139   She had heard about Him. Faith comes by hearing. Now she said, "I'll go down and get a look at Him."

L-140 And when she walked down there, and she first got a sight of the Word of God manifested in flesh, there was something about His talk and His looks, that she knowed that was Him. Yes, sir. "Oh, if I could only attract His attention some way, if I could only touch Him in some manner!" And she slipped through the crowd and she touched His garment.

L-141 Now remember, it wasn't her finger that He felt. No, sir, because the Palestinian garment hangs loose. And He...
Then Peter said, "Everybody has touched You."

L-142 He said, "But this is a different touch. I perceive that I have gotten weak."

L-143   Jesus had come. Her money was gone, everything was gone; but in that dark hour when the blood wouldn't stop, and the doctors couldn't stop it, Jesus come. And what did He do? He called her. Looked around till He found her, and He said, "You had a blood issue, but it stopped."

L-144 "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." "The Master has come and He calls for you. He has come and He called." He called her back to health.

L-145   The little woman at the well, that we spoke of last night, all hopes was gone. Perhaps, maybe her fifth husband had left her, and she just took the sixth one that night, and she--she was in a little doubt about him. Morally, she was gone. She wanted to be a real lady; she, no doubt, she had been reading the Bible.


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