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Urantia Book Paper 129 The Later Adult Life Of Jesus
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART IV: The Life and Teachings
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of Jesus : The Bestowal Of Michael On Urantia The Times Of Michael's Bestowal
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Birth And Infancy Of Jesus The Early Childhood Of Jesus The Later Childhood Of
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Jesus Jesus At Jerusalem The Two Crucial Years The Adolescent Years Jesus'
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Early Manhood The Later Adult Life Of Jesus On The Way To Rome The World's
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Religions The Sojourn At Rome The Return From Rome The Transition Years John
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The Baptist Baptism And The Forty Days Tarrying Time In Galilee Training The
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Kingdom's Messengers The Twelve Apostles The Ordination Of The Twelve Beginning
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The Public Work The Passover At Jerusalem Going Through Samaria At Gilboa And
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In The Decapolis Four Eventful Days At Capernaum First Preaching Tour Of
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Galilee The Interlude Visit To Jerusalem Training Evangelists At Bethsaida The
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Second Preaching Tour The Third Preaching Tour Tarrying And Teaching By The
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Seaside Events Leading Up To The Capernaum Crisis The Crisis At Capernaum Last
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Days At Capernaum Fleeing Through Northern Galilee The Sojourn At Tyre And
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Sidon At Caesarea-philippi The Mount Of Transfiguration The Decapolis Tour
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Rodan Of Alexandria Further Discussions With Rodan At The Feast Of Tabernacles
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Ordination Of The Seventy At Magadan At The Feast Of Dedication The Perean
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Mission Begins Last Visit To Northern Perea The Visit To Philadelphia The
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Resurrection Of Lazarus Last Teaching At Pella The Kingdom Of Heaven On The Way
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To Jerusalem Going Into Jerusalem Monday In Jerusalem ...
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Paper 129 The Later Adult Life Of Jesus
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Introduction
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JESUS had fully and finally separated himself from the management of the
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domestic affairs of the Nazareth family and from the immediate direction of its
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individuals. He continued, right up to the event of his baptism, to contribute
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to the family finances and to take a keen personal interest in the spiritual
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welfare of every one of his brothers and sisters. And always was he ready to do
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everything humanly possible for the comfort and happiness of his widowed
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mother.
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The Son of Man had now made every preparation for detaching himself permanently
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from the Nazareth home; and this was not easy for him to do. Jesus naturally
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loved his people; he loved his family, and this natural affection had been
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tremendously augmented by his extraordinary devotion to them. The more fully we
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bestow ourselves upon our fellows, the more we come to love them; and since
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Jesus had given himself so fully to his family, he loved them with a great and
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fervent affection.
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All the family had slowly awakened to the realization that Jesus was making
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ready to leave them. The sadness of the anticipated separation was only
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tempered by this graduated method of preparing them for the announcement of his
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intended departure. For more than four years they discerned that he was
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planning for this eventual separation.
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1. THE TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR (A.D. 21)
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In January of this year, A.D. 21, on a rainy Sunday morning, Jesus took
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unceremonious leave of his family, only explaining that he was going over to
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Tiberias and then on a visit to other cities about the Sea of Galilee. And thus
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he left them, never again to be a regular member of that household.
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He spent one week at Tiberias, the new city which was soon to succeed Sepphoris
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as the capital of Galilee; and finding little to interest him, he passed on
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successively through Magdala and Bethsaida to Capernaum, where he stopped to
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pay a visit to his father's friend Zebedee. Zebedee's sons were fishermen; he
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himself was a boatbuilder. Jesus of Nazareth was an expert in both designing
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and building; he was a master at working with wood; and Zebedee had long known
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of the skill of the Nazareth craftsman. For a long time Zebedee had
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contemplated making improved boats; he now laid his plans before Jesus and
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invited the visiting carpenter to join him in the enterprise, and Jesus readily
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consented.
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Jesus worked with Zebedee only a little more than one year, but during that
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time he created a new style of boat and established entirely new methods of
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boatmaking. By superior technique and greatly improved methods of steaming the
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boards, Jesus and Zebedee began to build boats of a very superior type, craft
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which were far more safe for sailing the lake than were the older types. For
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several years Zebedee had more work, turning out these new-style boats, than
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his small establishment could handle; in less than five years practically all
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the craft on the lake had been built in the shop of Zebedee at Capernaum. Jesus
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became well known to the Galilean fisherfolk as the designer of the new boats.
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Zebedee was a moderately well-to-do man; his boatbuilding shops were on the
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lake to the south of Capernaum, and his home was situated down the lake shore
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near the fishing headquarters of Bethsaida. Jesus lived in the home of Zebedee
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during the year and more he remained at Capernaum. He had long worked alone in
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the world, that is, without a father, and greatly enjoyed this period of
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working with a father-partner.
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Zebedee's wife, Salome, was a relative of Annas, onetime high priest at
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Jerusalem and still the most influential of the Sadducean group, having been
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deposed only eight years previously. Salome became a great admirer of Jesus.
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She loved him as she loved her own sons, James, John, and David, while her four
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daughters looked upon Jesus as their elder brother. Jesus often went out
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fishing with James, John, and David, and they learned that he was an
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experienced fisherman as well as an expert boatbuilder.
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All this year Jesus sent money each month to James. He returned to Nazareth in
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October to attend Martha's wedding, and he was not again in Nazareth for over
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two years, when he returned shortly before the double wedding of Simon and
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Jude.
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Throughout this year Jesus built boats and continued to observe how men lived
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on earth. Frequently he would go down to visit at the caravan station,
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Capernaum being on the direct travel route from Damascus to the south.
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Capernaum was a strong Roman military post, and the garrison's commanding
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officer was a gentile believer in Yahweh, "a devout man," as the Jews were wont
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to designate such proselytes. This officer belonged to a wealthy Roman family,
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and he took it upon himself to build a beautiful synagogue in Capernaum, which
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had been presented to the Jews a short time before Jesus came to live with
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Zebedee. Jesus conducted the services in this new synagogue more than half the
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time this year, and some of the caravan people who chanced to attend remembered
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him as the carpenter from Nazareth.
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When it came to the payment of taxes, Jesus registered himself as a "skilled
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craftsman of Capernaum." From this day on to the end of his earth life he was
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known as a resident of Capernaum. He never claimed any other legal residence,
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although he did, for various reasons, permit others to assign his residence to
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Damascus, Bethany, Nazareth, and even Alexandria.
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At the Capernaum synagogue he found many new books in the library chests, and
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he spent at least five evenings a week at intense study. One evening he devoted
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to social life with the older folks, and one evening he spent with the young
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people. There was something gracious and inspiring about the personality of
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Jesus which invariably attracted young people. He always made them feel at ease
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in his presence. Perhaps his great secret in getting along with them consisted
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in the twofold fact that he was always interested in what they were doing,
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while he seldom offered them advice unless they asked for it.
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The Zebedee family almost worshiped Jesus, and they never failed to attend the
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conferences of questions and answers which he conducted each evening after
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supper before he departed for the synagogue to study. The youthful neighbors
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also came in frequently to attend these after-supper meetings. To these little
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gatherings Jesus gave varied and advanced instruction, just as advanced as they
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could comprehend. He talked quite freely with them, expressing his ideas and
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ideals about politics, sociology, science, and philosophy, but never presumed
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to speak with authoritative finality except when discussing religion--the
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relation of man to God.
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Once a week Jesus held a meeting with the entire household, shop, and shore
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helpers, for Zebedee had many employees. And it was among these workers that
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Jesus was first called "the Master." They all loved him. He enjoyed his labors
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with Zebedee in Capernaum, but he missed the children playing out by the side
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of the Nazareth carpenter shop.
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Of the sons of Zebedee, James was the most interested in Jesus as a teacher, as
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a philosopher. John cared most for his religious teaching and opinions. David
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respected him as a mechanic but took little stock in his religious views and
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philosophic teachings.
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Frequently Jude came over on the Sabbath to hear Jesus talk in the synagogue
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and would tarry to visit with him. And the more Jude saw of his eldest brother,
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the more he became convinced that Jesus was a truly great man.
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This year Jesus made great advances in the ascendant mastery of his human mind
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and attained new and high levels of conscious contact with his indwelling
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Thought Adjuster.
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This was the last year of his settled life. Never again did Jesus spend a whole
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year in one place or at one undertaking. The days of his earth pilgrimages were
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rapidly approaching. Periods of intense activity were not far in the future,
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but there were now about to intervene between his simple but intensely active
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life of the past and his still more intense and strenuous public ministry, a
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few years of extensive travel and highly diversified personal activity. His
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training as a man of the realm had to be completed before he could enter upon
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his career of teaching and preaching as the perfected God-man of the divine and
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posthuman phases of his Urantia bestowal.
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2. THE TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR (A.D. 22)
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In March, A.D. 22, Jesus took leave of Zebedee and of Capernaum. He asked for a
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small sum of money to defray his expenses to Jerusalem. While working with
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Zebedee he had drawn only small sums of money, which each month he would send
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to the family at Nazareth. One month Joseph would come down to Capernaum for
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the money; the next month Jude would come over to Capernaum, get the money from
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Jesus, and take it up to Nazareth. Jude's fishing headquarters was only a few
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miles south of Capernaum.
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When Jesus took leave of Zebedee's family, he agreed to remain in Jerusalem
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until Passover time, and they all promised to be present for that event. They
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even arranged to celebrate the Passover supper together. They all sorrowed when
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Jesus left them, especially the daughters of Zebedee.
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Before leaving Capernaum, Jesus had a long talk with his new-found friend and
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close companion, John Zebedee. He told John that he contemplated traveling
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extensively until "my hour shall come" and asked John to act in his stead in
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the matter of sending some money to the family at Nazareth each month until
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the funds due him should be exhausted. And John made him this promise: "My
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Teacher, go about your business, do your work in the world; I will act for you
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in this or any other matter, and I will watch over your family even as I would
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foster my own mother and care for my own brothers and sisters. I will disburse
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your funds which my father holds as you have directed and as they may be
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needed, and when your money has been expended, if I do not receive more from
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you, and if your mother is in need, then will I share my own earnings with her.
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Go your way in peace. I will act in your stead in all these matters."
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Therefore, after Jesus had departed for Jerusalem, John consulted with his
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father, Zebedee, regarding the money due Jesus, and he was surprised that it
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was such a large sum. As Jesus had left the matter so entirely in their hands,
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they agreed that it would be the better plan to invest these funds in property
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and use the income for assisting the family at Nazareth; and since Zebedee knew
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of a little house in Capernaum which carried a mortgage and was for sale, he
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directed John to buy this house with Jesus' money and hold the title in trust
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for his friend. And John did as his father advised him. For two years the rent
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of this house was applied on the mortgage, and this, augmented by a certain
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large fund which Jesus presently sent up to John to be used as needed by the
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family, almost equaled the amount of this obligation; and Zebedee supplied the
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difference, so that John paid up the remainder of the mortgage when it fell
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due, thereby securing clear title to this two-room house. In this way Jesus
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became the owner of a house in Capernaum, but he had not been told about it.
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When the family at Nazareth heard that Jesus had departed from Capernaum, they,
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not knowing of this financial arrangement with John, believed the time had come
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for them to get along without any further help from Jesus. James remembered his
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contract with Jesus and, with the help of his brothers, forthwith assumed full
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responsibility for the care of the family.
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But let us go back to observe Jesus in Jerusalem. For almost two months he
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spent the greater part of his time listening to the temple discussions with
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occasional visits to the various schools of the rabbis. Most of the Sabbath
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days he spent at Bethany.
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Jesus had carried with him to Jerusalem a letter from Salome, Zebedee's wife,
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introducing him to the former high priest, Annas, as "one, the same as my own
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son." Annas spent much time with him, personally taking him to visit the many
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academies of the Jerusalem religious teachers. While Jesus thoroughly inspected
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these schools and carefully observed their methods of teaching, he never so
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much as asked a single question in public. Although Annas looked upon Jesus as
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a great man, he was puzzled as to how to advise him. He recognized the
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foolishness of suggesting that he enter any of the schools of Jerusalem as a
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student, and yet he well knew Jesus would never be accorded the status of a
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regular teacher inasmuch as he had never been trained in these schools.
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Presently the time of the Passover drew near, and along with the throngs from
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every quarter there arrived at Jerusalem from Capernaum, Zebedee and his entire
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family. They all stopped at the spacious home of Annas, where they celebrated
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the Passover as one happy family.
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Before the end of this Passover week, by apparent chance, Jesus met a wealthy
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traveler and his son, a young man about seventeen years of age. These travelers
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hailed from India, and being on their way to visit Rome and various other
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points on the Mediterranean, they had arranged to arrive in Jerusalem
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during the Passover, hoping to find someone whom they could engage as
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interpreter for both and tutor for the son. The father was insistent that Jesus
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consent to travel with them. Jesus told him about his family and that it was
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hardly fair to go away for almost two years, during which time they might find
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themselves in need. Whereupon, this traveler from the Orient proposed to
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advance to Jesus the wages of one year so that he could intrust such funds to
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his friends for the safeguarding of his family against want. And Jesus agreed
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to make the trip.
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Jesus turned this large sum over to John the son of Zebedee. And you have been
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told how John applied this money toward the liquidation of the mortgage on the
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Capernaum property. Jesus took Zebedee fully into his confidence regarding this
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Mediterranean journey, but he enjoined him to tell no man, not even his own
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flesh and blood, and Zebedee never did disclose his knowledge of Jesus'
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whereabouts during this long period of almost two years. Before Jesus' return
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from this trip the family at Nazareth had just about given him up as dead. Only
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the assurances of Zebedee, who went up to Nazareth with his son John on several
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occasions, kept hope alive in Mary's heart.
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During this time the Nazareth family got along very well; Jude had considerably
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increased his quota and kept up this extra contribution until he was married.
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Notwithstanding that they required little assistance, it was the practice of
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John Zebedee to take presents each month to Mary and Ruth, as Jesus had
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instructed him.
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3. THE TWENTY-NINTH YEAR (A.D. 23)
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The whole of Jesus' twenty-ninth year was spent finishing up the tour of the
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Mediterranean world. The main events, as far as we have permission to reveal
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these experiences, constitute the subjects of the narratives which immediately
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follow this paper.
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Throughout this tour of the Roman world, for many reasons, Jesus was known as
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the Damascus scribe. At Corinth and other stops on the return trip he was,
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however, known as the Jewish tutor.
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This was an eventful period in Jesus' life. While on this journey he made many
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contacts with his fellow men, but this experience is a phase of his life which
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he never revealed to any member of his family nor to any of the apostles. Jesus
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lived out his life in the flesh and departed from this world without anyone
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(save Zebedee of Bethsaida) knowing that he had made this extensive trip. Some
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of his friends thought he had returned to Damascus; others thought he had gone
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to India. His own family inclined to the belief that he was in Alexandria, as
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they knew that he had once been invited to go there for the purpose of becoming
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an assistant chazan.
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When Jesus returned to Palestine, he did nothing to change the opinion of his
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family that he had gone from Jerusalem to Alexandria; he permitted them to
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continue in the belief that all the time he had been absent from Palestine had
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been spent in that city of learning and culture. Only Zebedee the boatbuilder
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of Bethsaida knew the facts about these matters, and Zebedee told no one.
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In all your efforts to decipher the meaning of Jesus' life on Urantia, you must
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be mindful of the motivation of the Michael bestowal. If you would comprehend
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the meaning of many of his apparently strange doings, you must discern the
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purpose of his sojourn on your world. He was consistently careful not to build
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up an overattractive and attention-consuming personal career. He wanted to make
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no unusual or overpowering appeals to his fellow men. He was dedicated to the
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work of revealing the heavenly Father to his fellow mortals and at the same
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time was consecrated to the sublime task of living his mortal earth life all
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the while subject to the will of the same Paradise Father.
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It will also always be helpful in understanding Jesus' life on earth if all
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mortal students of this divine bestowal will remember that, while he lived this
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life of incarnation on Urantia, he lived it for his entire universe. There was
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something special and inspiring associated with the life he lived in the flesh
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of mortal nature for every single inhabited sphere throughout all the universe
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of Nebadon. The same is also true of all those worlds which have become
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habitable since the eventful times of his sojourn on Urantia. And it will
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likewise be equally true of all worlds which may become inhabited by will
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creatures in all the future history of this local universe.
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The Son of Man, during the time and through the experiences of this tour of the
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Roman world, practically completed his educational contact-training with the
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diversified peoples of the world of his day and generation. By the time of his
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return to Nazareth, through the medium of this travel-training he had just
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about learned how man lived and wrought out his existence on Urantia.
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The real purpose of his trip around the Mediterranean basin was to know men. He
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came very close to hundreds of humankind on this journey. He met and loved all
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manner of men, rich and poor, high and low, black and white, educated and
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uneducated, cultured and uncultured, animalistic and spiritual, religious and
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irreligious, moral and immoral.
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On this Mediterranean journey Jesus made great advances in his human task of
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mastering the material and mortal mind, and his indwelling Adjuster made great
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progress in the ascension and spiritual conquest of this same human intellect.
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By the end of this tour Jesus virtually knew--with all human certainty--that he
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was a Son of God, a Creator Son of the Universal Father. The Adjuster more and
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more was able to bring up in the mind of the Son of Man shadowy memories of his
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Paradise experience in association with his divine Father ere he ever came to
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organize and administer this local universe of Nebadon. Thus did the Adjuster,
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little by little, bring to Jesus' human consciousness those necessary memories
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of his former and divine existence in the various epochs of the well-nigh
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eternal past. The last episode of his prehuman experience to be brought forth
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by the Adjuster was his farewell conference with Immanuel of Salvington just
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before his surrender of conscious personality to embark upon the Urantia
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incarnation. And this final memory picture of prehuman existence was made clear
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in Jesus' consciousness on the very day of his baptism by John in the Jordan.
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4. THE HUMAN JESUS
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To the onlooking celestial intelligences of the local universe, this
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Mediterranean trip was the most enthralling of all Jesus' earth experiences, at
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least of all his career right up to the event of his crucifixion and mortal
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death. This was the fascinating period of his personal ministry in contrast
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with the soon-following epoch of public ministry. This unique episode was all
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the more engrossing because he was at this time still the carpenter of
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Nazareth, the boatbuilder of Capernaum, the scribe of Damascus; he was still
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the Son of Man. He had not yet
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achieved the complete mastery of his human mind; the Adjuster had not fully
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mastered and counterparted the mortal identity. He was still a man among men.
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The purely human religious experience--the personal spiritual growth--of the
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Son of Man well-nigh reached the apex of attainment during this, the
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twenty-ninth year. This experience of spiritual development was a consistently
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gradual growth from the moment of the arrival of his Thought Adjuster until the
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day of the completion and confirmation of that natural and normal human
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relationship between the material mind of man and the mind-endowment of the
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spirit--the phenomenon of the making of these two minds one, the experience
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which the Son of Man attained in completion and finality, as an incarnated
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mortal of the realm, on the day of his baptism in the Jordan.
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Throughout these years, while he did not appear to engage in so many seasons of
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formal communion with his Father in heaven, he perfected increasingly effective
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methods of personal communication with the indwelling spirit presence of the
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Paradise Father. He lived a real life, a full life, and a truly normal,
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natural, and average life in the flesh. He knows from personal experience the
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equivalent of the actuality of the entire sum and substance of the living of
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the life of human beings on the material worlds of time and space.
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The Son of Man experienced those wide ranges of human emotion which reach from
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superb joy to profound sorrow. He was a child of joy and a being of rare good
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humor; likewise was he a "man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." In a
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spiritual sense, he did live through the mortal life from the bottom to the
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top, from the beginning to the end. From a material point of view, he might
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appear to have escaped living through both social extremes of human existence,
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but intellectually he became wholly familiar with the entire and complete
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experience of humankind.
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Jesus knows about the thoughts and feelings, the urges and impulses, of the
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evolutionary and ascendant mortals of the realms, from birth to death. He has
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lived the human life from the beginnings of physical, intellectual, and
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spiritual selfhood up through infancy, childhood, youth, and adulthood--even to
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the human experience of death. He not only passed through these usual and
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familiar human periods of intellectual and spiritual advancement, but he also
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fully experienced those higher and more advanced phases of human and Adjuster
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reconciliation which so few Urantia mortals ever attain. And thus he
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experienced the full life of mortal man, not only as it is lived on your world,
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but also as it is lived on all other evolutionary worlds of time and space,
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even on the highest and most advanced of all the worlds settled in light and
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life.
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Although this perfect life which he lived in the likeness of mortal flesh may
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not have received the unqualified and universal approval of his fellow mortals,
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those who chanced to be his contemporaries on earth, still, the life which
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Jesus of Nazareth lived in the flesh and on Urantia did receive full and
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unqualified acceptance by the Universal Father as constituting at one and the
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same time, and in one and the same personality-life, the fullness of the
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revelation of the eternal God to mortal man and the presentation of perfected
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human personality to the satisfaction of the Infinite Creator.
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And this was his true and supreme purpose. He did not come down to live on
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Urantia as the perfect and detailed example for any child or adult, any man or
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woman, in that age or any other. True it is, indeed, that in his full, rich,
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beautiful, and noble life we may all find much that is exquisitely exemplary,
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divinely inspiring, but this is because he lived a true and genuinely human
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life. Jesus did
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not live his life on earth in order to set an example for all other human
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beings to copy. He lived this life in the flesh by the same mercy ministry that
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you all may live your lives on earth; and as he lived his mortal life in his
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day and as he was, so did he thereby set the example for all of us thus to live
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our lives in our day and as we are. You may not aspire to live his life, but
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you can resolve to live your lives even as, and by the same means that, he
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lived his. Jesus may not be the technical and detailed example for all the
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mortals of all ages on all the realms of this local universe, but he is
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everlastingly the inspiration and guide of all Paradise pilgrims from the
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worlds of initial ascension up through a universe of universes and on through
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Havona to Paradise. Jesus is the new and living way from man to God, from the
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partial to the perfect, from the earthly to the heavenly, from time to
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eternity.
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By the end of the twenty-ninth year Jesus of Nazareth had virtually finished
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the living of the life required of mortals as sojourners in the flesh. He came
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on earth the fullness of God to be manifest to man; he had now become well-nigh
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the perfection of man awaiting the occasion to become manifest to God. And he
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did all of this before he was thirty years of age.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART IV: The Life and Teachings
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of Jesus : The Bestowal Of Michael On Urantia The Times Of Michael's Bestowal
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Birth And Infancy Of Jesus The Early Childhood Of Jesus The Later Childhood Of
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Jesus Jesus At Jerusalem The Two Crucial Years The Adolescent Years Jesus'
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Early Manhood The Later Adult Life Of Jesus On The Way To Rome The World's
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Religions The Sojourn At Rome The Return From Rome The Transition Years John
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The Baptist Baptism And The Forty Days Tarrying Time In Galilee Training The
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Kingdom's Messengers The Twelve Apostles The Ordination Of The Twelve Beginning
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The Public Work The Passover At Jerusalem Going Through Samaria At Gilboa And
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In The Decapolis Four Eventful Days At Capernaum First Preaching Tour Of
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Galilee The Interlude Visit To Jerusalem Training Evangelists At Bethsaida The
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Second Preaching Tour The Third Preaching Tour Tarrying And Teaching By The
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Seaside Events Leading Up To The Capernaum Crisis The Crisis At Capernaum Last
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Days At Capernaum Fleeing Through Northern Galilee The Sojourn At Tyre And
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Sidon At Caesarea-philippi The Mount Of Transfiguration The Decapolis Tour
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Rodan Of Alexandria Further Discussions With Rodan At The Feast Of Tabernacles
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Ordination Of The Seventy At Magadan At The Feast Of Dedication The Perean
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Mission Begins Last Visit To Northern Perea The Visit To Philadelphia The
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Resurrection Of Lazarus Last Teaching At Pella The Kingdom Of Heaven On The Way
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To Jerusalem Going Into Jerusalem Monday In Jerusalem Tuesday Morning In The
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Temple The Last Temple Discourse Tuesday Evening On Mount Olivet Wednesday, The
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Rest Day Last Day At The Camp The Last Supper The Farewell Discourse Final
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Admonitions And Warnings In Gethsemane The Betrayal And Arrest Of Jesus Before
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The Sanhedrin Court The Trial Before Pilate Just Before The Crucifixion The
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Crucifixion The Time Of The Tomb The Resurrection Morontia Appearances Of Jesus
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Appearances To The Apostles And Other Leaders Appearances In Galilee Final
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Appearances And Ascension Bestowal Of The Spirit Of Truth After Pentecost The
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Faith Of Jesus
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