Listen what He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." There is the compassion, knowing the will of God and then doing it. See? See? "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees," not hears. Not… See? "What He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
So He must have had a—a vision of going up there, "He had need to go by Samaria," and He knew this woman would be there. So knowing it, He just to come up there and be at this gate, send the disciples away. The… Then He didn't know what to do when the woman begin to ask these questions, and so forth, so He just waited for the Father to show Him. And when He found what her trouble was… How many knows what it was? She had too many husbands. And so He told her, said, "Go get your husband and come here."
"Why," she said, "I don't have any husband." That looked like a straight rebuke. See?
"Why," He said, "you have told the truth, because you've had five, and the one you're now living with is not your husband. In that now you have said right, you 'have no husband.'"
Watch that little woman. You know, she could teach ninety percent of the clergy, today, the Gospel. See? Why, why did those priests stand there and call Him "Beelzebub," when their very Bible said that's what He would do? Is that right? And here stands a prostitute, a woman of ill fame, and, as soon as He said that to that woman, she never said, "Well, You're Beelzebub."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Now watch her quotation. "We perceive, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know that when the Messiah cometh, which is called the Christ; we're looking for Him to come, and, when He comes, He is going to tell us these things. This is what He's going to do."
That was the sign of Messiah, yesterday. That's the sign of Messiah, today, the same. See?
"We know when Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things, but Who are You?" That was the question. "I know You are a prophet. We haven't had one for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years."
"Great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's letter over here said they had a prophet, the last one, Malachi, four hundred and something years ago; we never had a prophet in Israel since, but here stands a Man telling me this."
"You are a prophet. And we are looking for the Messiah."
Jesus said, "I am He, that speaks to you."
That's His identification. That's how He identified Himself to Israel. Here He is with the Samaritans, identifying Himself.
"I am He, that speaks with you." And, upon that, she never questioned it. See, Life was foreknown by God.
And no matter how much those Pharisees tried to be religious, Jesus said, "They, they were blinded." He said, "Well did Isaiah speak of you, 'You got eyes, and can't see. You've got knowledge, and don't understand.' You're a lecturer, and don't know what you're talking about. You're, you see, you have all these things."
Because, you see, Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him, and all that the Father has given Me will come to Me." And He said that, did He not? [Congregation says, "Amen."—Ed.] See?
What was it? There was the Bible, said, in Heb-… in the Book of Revelation. In the last days when the "antichrist" raised up on—on the scene, so close like the real thing, "it would deceive the very elected if it was possible." But, and then He said again, "he deceived all upon the earth, whose names were not written on the Lamb's Book of Life, slain before the foundation of the world."
See, their names were put on the Book of Life, the Book of Redemption. Jesus come to redeem those that had their names in the Book. And when that last name is redeemed, the Lamb takes the Book and walks away; that's all, redemption is over, it's closed. Those!
And what was she? She was one that had her name There. No matter what kind of a state she was in there, as soon as that true Gospel Light struck that little prostitute, she recognized It. Why? There was something in there to spark it off. See, she recognized It.
You might pour water in gasoline, it'll only hinder it; but let a little fire hit it one time, and watch what happens, you see. It takes the sparking of faith, to the Word of God. When they know it's the Truth, there is something happens!
She never asked one more question. She knew that was that Messiah. Why? He had fully identified Himself. Just like Philip said, "Why, You're the Son of God, the King of Israel!"
There were those there, said, "That's, He is fortunetellers, that's what He is."
He said, "You cannot be forgiven for that, when the Holy Spirit does it." See? He said.
But now watch here how He was identified to her. And she ran quickly into the city, and she said to the men.
Now, really, if there is any Easterner here, you, the Bible is a new book to a man from the West, that goes East once, see, because all the customs, they still live it the same way. She had no right to go in the city and talk to the men. She could not do it. They would really wouldn't listen to her.
But she had a message, that nothing could stop her. See, she had found Life, something that struck. She run into the city and told the men, "Come, see a Man that told me the things I've done. Isn't that the very Messiah? Isn't that what we've been looking for?"

William Branham, Sermon «Sir, We Would See Jesus»
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