William Branham's Exaggerations: Difference between revisions

25 So, immediately I went to Kingston. And they—they knowed Thursday afternoon that I’d be there Friday. That’s all the advertisement we had. I’m not very good at making…?…or estimating crowds, because I usually exaggerate on it. But the first night, I’d say we had about twelve, oh, about twelve hundred people, out, because it was just known one day. And the next day they started runners running four miles, on relay, up the mountains. One runner would run for four hours, and then let some other runner go on up the mountain. And the second night there was about five thousand. And the third night it was estimated around fifteen thousand, maybe twenty. And there were thousands times thousands came to the Lord.</ref>William Branham, 59-0301M - Strait Is The Gate, para. 25</ref>

''In the newspaper it said that all the birds had flew away from their coves… In India, they don’t have nice fences like you have here in the States, woven wire, and so forth, and fine picket fences. They pick up the stones mostly, and lay the stones together. There’s four hundred and seventy million people in India. And honest (I know I’m exaggerating), but I’d guess four hundred million beggars. There’s just… They know nothing but beg. They got plenty of natural resources, but not the mentality to develop it. All they know is beg and religion.<ref>William Branham, 61-0119E - Queen Of Sheba, para. 8</ref>