<TITLE>11. Par 121-137</TITLE>L-121 And while they were gone, a woman of ill fame... Maybe, as I said, the young lady might have been turned on the street from, not juvenile delinquent, maybe parent delinquent. They let her out on the street, and maybe a fine-looking young woman, and she had did evil.

L-122 And she come up there to get her water, because she couldn't come with the virgins, they wouldn't... nice, honorable women. They couldn't do it. They would get theirs first. Then--then the rest of them, prostitutes and things, come on up in the day. Virgins gets their...

L-123   Well, how I've watched them put that big five-gallon kettle on top of their head, that big crock, and one on each shoulder, and walk along, talking, as women can, and never spill a drop of it. I don't know how they do it, but they sure do it.

L-124 But they, through there, and then she come to get her water for the day. The rest of them was gone; must have been around noon. And she took the handles and put it in for the windle, to let it down, to get the...

L-125 See, it's just like a kind of like a crock. And it's--and it's got a--a handle around it. And they put those hooks around those handles, and, being heavy, when it gets down, it turns over. Then they windle the water up. Just like sometimes we've done it here in these countries, and so forth, but they have like a trough we let down.

L-126   Now, we--we find she started to let this pitcher down into the well, and she heard a somebody, said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she looked around, she saw a middle-aged Man sitting there.

L-127 He--He must have looked a little older than what He was, because in Saint John 6 here we find out, that, they at the feast, they were saying... He said what He--what He was. And they said, "Well, You say You've seen Abraham, and You're a Man not over fifty years old?" See, "not over," see, He must have looked fifty when He was only thirty. Said, "You, You're not over fifty years old, and say You've seen Abraham?"
He said, "Before Abraham was, I am." See?

L-128 So then we find out that He must have looked a little aged, a sitting over against the side of the wall.

L-129 We don't know just what He looked like. I wouldn't know. A psychiatrist or psychology paints us a picture, but Hofmann one, and Sallman, and whoever more, but that's just what they think about it. See? We don't know just what He looked like.

L-130   And there He was sitting there, and then He said this. And now He turned, the woman to Him, quickly, and let Him know, "This is a segregation." He said... "Now just a minute." Said, "Now, You are a Jew, and I'm a Sam-... a woman of Samaria, and we have no dealings with each other."

L-131 And said, He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I bring, give you Water you don't come to draw."

L-132 And, the conversation, what was He doing? He was trying to contact her spirit now, see, to see what was in her. Now the Father had sent Him up there, just the same as I believe the Father sent me here. See? But what, I don't know. See? But there He was, and He was talking to her.

L-133 And she said, "Oh, You say, 'Worship at Jerusalem.' Our fathers worshiped in this mountain," and about the well, and so forth.

L-134 He said, "The time is coming, and now is, and God seeks those who worship in Spirit and Truth."

L-135 The conversation went on till He found what her trouble was. How many in my congregation tonight, knows what her trouble was? Sure, she had too many husbands. So He said... He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
And she said, "I don't have any husband."

L-136 He said, "You've said the truth. You've had five, and the one you're living with is not yours."

L-137 Now watch. Look at those trained priests, failing to see that Word manifested. When He did that before those priests, they said, "He is Beelzebub."


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