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122:8.1 All that night [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother of Jesus) Mary] was restless so that neither of them [[slept]] much. By the break of day the pangs of [[childbirth]] were well in [[evidence]], and at noon, August 21, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_BC 7 B.C.], with the help and kind ministrations of [[women]] fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a [[male]] child. [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus born] into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother of Jesus) Mary] had brought along for such a possible [[contingency]], and laid in a near-by manger.

122:8.1 All that night [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother of Jesus) Mary] was restless so that neither of them [[slept]] much. By the break of day the pangs of [[childbirth]] were well in [[evidence]], and at noon, August 21, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_BC 7 B.C.], with the help and kind ministrations of [[women]] fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a [[male]] child. [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus born] into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother of Jesus) Mary] had brought along for such a possible [[contingency]], and laid in a near-by manger.

122:8.2 In just the same [[manner]] as all [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/infant babies] before that day and since have come into the world, the [[promised]] child was [[born]]; and on the eighth day, according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_milah Jewish practice], he was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision circumcised] and formally [[named]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua#Name Joshua] ([[Jesus]]).

122:8.2 In just the same [[manner]] as all [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/infant babies] before that day and since have come into the world, the [[promised]] child was [[born]]; and on the eighth day, according to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_milah Jewish practice], he was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision circumcised] and formally [[named]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua#Name Joshua] ([[Jesus]]).

122:8.3 The next day after the [[birth]] of [[Jesus]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] made his enrollment. Meeting a man they had talked with two nights previously at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho Jericho], Joseph was taken by him to a well-to-do [[friend]] who had a room at the inn, and who said he would gladly exchange quarters with the [[Nazareth]] couple. That afternoon they moved up to the inn, where they lived for almost three weeks until they found lodgings in the [[home]] of a distant [[relative]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph].

122:8.3 The next day after the [[birth]] of [[Jesus]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] made his enrollment. Meeting a man they had talked with two nights previously at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho Jericho], Joseph was taken by him to a well-to-do [[friend]] who had a room at the inn, and who said he would gladly exchange quarters with the [[Nazareth]] couple. That afternoon they moved up to the inn, where they lived for almost three weeks until they found lodgings in the [[home]] of a distant [[relative]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph].

122:8.4 The second day after the [[birth]] of Jesus, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother of Jesus) Mary] sent word to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_(Biblical_person) Elizabeth] that her child had come and received word in return inviting Joseph up to [[Jerusalem]] to talk over all their affairs with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zechariah_(priest) Zacharias]. The following week Joseph went to [[Jerusalem]] to confer with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zechariah_(priest) Zacharias]. Both Zacharias and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_(Biblical_person) Elizabeth] had become possessed with the [[sincere]] [[conviction]] that [[Jesus]] was indeed to become the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_messianism Jewish deliverer], the [[Messiah]], and that their son [[John the Baptist|John]] was to be his chief of aides, his right-hand man of [[destiny]]. And since [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother of Jesus) Mary] held these same [[ideas]], it was not [[difficult]] to prevail upon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] to remain in [[Bethlehem]], the City of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David David], so that [[Jesus]] might grow up to become the successor of David on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne throne] of all [[Israel]]. Accordingly, they remained in [[Bethlehem]] more than a year, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] meantime working some at his carpenter's trade.

122:8.4 The second day after the [[birth]] of Jesus, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother of Jesus) Mary] sent word to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_(Biblical_person) Elizabeth] that her child had come and received word in return inviting Joseph up to [[Jerusalem]] to talk over all their affairs with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zechariah_(priest) Zacharias]. The following week Joseph went to [[Jerusalem]] to confer with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zechariah_(priest) Zacharias]. Both Zacharias and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_(Biblical_person) Elizabeth] had become possessed with the [[sincere]] [[conviction]] that [[Jesus]] was indeed to become the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_messianism Jewish deliverer], the [[Messiah]], and that their son [[John the Baptist|John]] was to be his chief of aides, his right-hand man of [[destiny]]. And since [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother of Jesus) Mary] held these same [[ideas]], it was not [[difficult]] to prevail upon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] to remain in [[Bethlehem]], the City of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David David], so that [[Jesus]] might grow up to become the successor of David on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne throne] of all [[Israel]]. Accordingly, they remained in [[Bethlehem]] more than a year, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] meantime working some at his carpenter's trade.

122:8.5 At the noontide [[birth]] of [[Jesus]] the [[seraphim]] of [[Urantia]], assembled under their directors, did sing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem anthems] of [[glory]] over the [[Bethlehem]] manger, but these utterances of [[praise]] were not heard by [[human]] ears. No shepherds nor any other [[mortal]] [[creatures]] came to pay [[homage]] to the babe of [[Bethlehem]] until the day of the arrival of certain [[priests]] from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur Ur], who were sent down from [[Jerusalem]] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zechariah_(priest) Zacharias].

122:8.5 At the noontide [[birth]] of [[Jesus]] the [[seraphim]] of [[Urantia]], assembled under their directors, did sing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem anthems] of [[glory]] over the [[Bethlehem]] manger, but these utterances of [[praise]] were not heard by [[human]] ears. No shepherds nor any other [[mortal]] [[creatures]] came to pay [[homage]] to the babe of [[Bethlehem]] until the day of the arrival of certain [[priests]] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur Ur], who were sent down from [[Jerusalem]] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zechariah_(priest) Zacharias].

122:8.6 These [[priests]] from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] had been told sometime before by a strange [[religious]] [[teacher]] of their country that he had had a [[dream]] in which he was informed that " the light of life "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_1] was about to appear on [[earth]] as a babe and among the [[Jews]]. And thither went these [[three]] [[teachers]] looking for this " light of life. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_1] After many weeks of futile search in [[Jerusalem]], they were about to return to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur Ur] when [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zechariah_(priest) Zacharias] met them and disclosed his [[belief]] that [[Jesus]] was the object of their quest and sent them on to [[Bethlehem]], where they found the babe and left their [[gifts]] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother of Jesus) Mary], his earth [[mother]]. The babe was almost three weeks old at the time of their [[visit]].

122:8.6 These [[priests]] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] had been told sometime before by a strange [[religious]] [[teacher]] of their country that he had had a [[dream]] in which he was informed that " the light of life "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_1] was about to appear on [[earth]] as a babe and among the [[Jews]]. And thither went these [[three]] [[teachers]] looking for this " light of life. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_john#Chapter_1] After many weeks of futile search in [[Jerusalem]], they were about to return to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur Ur] when [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zechariah_(priest) Zacharias] met them and disclosed his [[belief]] that [[Jesus]] was the object of their quest and sent them on to [[Bethlehem]], where they found the babe and left their [[gifts]] with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother of Jesus) Mary], his earth [[mother]]. The babe was almost three weeks old at the time of their [[visit]].

122:8.7 These [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi wise men] saw no [[star]] to guide them to [[Bethlehem]]. The [[beautiful]] [[legend]] of the [http://www.bethlehemstar.net/ star of Bethlehem] originated in this way: [[Jesus]] was [[born]] August 21 at noon, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_BC 7 B.C.] On May 29, 7 B.C., there occurred an extraordinary [http://www.astronomynotes.com/history/bethlehem-star.html conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation of Pisces]. And it is a remarkable [[astronomic]] [[fact]] that similar conjunctions occurred on September 29 and December 5 of the same year. Upon the basis of these extraordinary but wholly [[natural]] [[events]] the well-meaning [[zealots]] of the succeeding [[generation]] constructed the appealing [[legend]] of the [http://www.bethlehemstar.net/ star of Bethlehem] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi adoring Magi] led thereby to the manger, where they beheld and [[worshiped]] the newborn babe. [[Oriental]] and near-Oriental [[minds]] delight in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tales fairy stories], and they are continually spinning such [[beautiful]] [[myths]] about the lives of their [[religious]] [[leaders]] and [[political]] [[heroes]]. In the [[absence]] of [[printing]], when most [[human]] [[knowledge]] was passed by [[Orality|word of mouth]] from one [[generation]] to another, it was very easy for [[myths]] to become [[traditions]] and for traditions [[eventually]] to become [[accepted]] as [[facts]].

122:8.7 These [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi wise men] saw no [[star]] to guide them to [[Bethlehem]]. The [[beautiful]] [[legend]] of the [https://www.bethlehemstar.net/ star of Bethlehem] originated in this way: [[Jesus]] was [[born]] August 21 at noon, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_BC 7 B.C.] On May 29, 7 B.C., there occurred an extraordinary [https://www.astronomynotes.com/history/bethlehem-star.html conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation of Pisces]. And it is a remarkable [[astronomic]] [[fact]] that similar conjunctions occurred on September 29 and December 5 of the same year. Upon the basis of these extraordinary but wholly [[natural]] [[events]] the well-meaning [[zealots]] of the succeeding [[generation]] constructed the appealing [[legend]] of the [https://www.bethlehemstar.net/ star of Bethlehem] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi adoring Magi] led thereby to the manger, where they beheld and [[worshiped]] the newborn babe. [[Oriental]] and near-Oriental [[minds]] delight in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tales fairy stories], and they are continually spinning such [[beautiful]] [[myths]] about the lives of their [[religious]] [[leaders]] and [[political]] [[heroes]]. In the [[absence]] of [[printing]], when most [[human]] [[knowledge]] was passed by [[Orality|word of mouth]] from one [[generation]] to another, it was very easy for [[myths]] to become [[traditions]] and for traditions [[eventually]] to become [[accepted]] as [[facts]].

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[[Category:Paper 122 - Birth and Infancy of Jesus]]

[[Category:Paper 122 - Birth and Infancy of Jesus]]

[[Category: Myth]]

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