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129:3.1 The whole of [[Jesus]]' twenty-ninth year was spent finishing up the tour of the [[Mediterranean]] world. The main [[events]], as far as we have [[permission]] to [[reveal]] these [[experiences]], constitute the subjects of the [[narratives]] which [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_130 immediately follow this paper].

129:3.1 The whole of [[Jesus]]' twenty-ninth year was spent finishing up the tour of the [[Mediterranean]] world. The main [[events]], as far as we have [[permission]] to [[reveal]] these [[experiences]], constitute the subjects of the [[narratives]] which [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_130 immediately follow this paper].

129:3.2 Throughout this tour of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_world Roman world], for many reasons, [[Jesus]] was known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus] [[scribe]]. At [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth Corinth] and other stops on the return trip he was, however, known as the [[Jewish]] [[tutor]].

129:3.2 Throughout this tour of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_world Roman world], for many reasons, [[Jesus]] was known as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus] [[scribe]]. At [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth Corinth] and other stops on the return trip he was, however, known as the [[Jewish]] [[tutor]].

129:3.3 This was an eventful period in [[Jesus]]' life. While on this [[journey]] he made many [[contacts]] with his fellow men, but this [[experience]] is a [[phase]] of his life which he never revealed to any member of his [[family]] nor to any of [[the apostles]]. [[Jesus]] lived out his life in the [[flesh]] and departed from this world without anyone (save [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebedee Zebedee] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethsaida Bethsaida]) knowing that he had made this extensive trip. Some of his [[friends]] thought he had returned to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus]; others thought he had gone to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]. His own [[family]] inclined to the [[belief]] that he was in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria], as they knew that he had once been invited to go there for the [[purpose]] of becoming an assistant [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazzan chazan].

129:3.3 This was an eventful period in [[Jesus]]' life. While on this [[journey]] he made many [[contacts]] with his fellow men, but this [[experience]] is a [[phase]] of his life which he never revealed to any member of his [[family]] nor to any of [[the apostles]]. [[Jesus]] lived out his life in the [[flesh]] and departed from this world without anyone (save [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebedee Zebedee] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethsaida Bethsaida]) knowing that he had made this extensive trip. Some of his [[friends]] thought he had returned to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus]; others thought he had gone to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]. His own [[family]] inclined to the [[belief]] that he was in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria], as they knew that he had once been invited to go there for the [[purpose]] of becoming an assistant [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazzan chazan].

129:3.4 When [[Jesus]] returned to [[Palestine]], he did nothing to change the [[opinion]] of his [[family]] that he had gone from [[Jerusalem]] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria]; he permitted them to continue in the [[belief]] that all the time he had been [[absent]] from [[Palestine]] had been spent in that city of [[learning]] and [[culture]]. Only [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebedee Zebedee] the boatbuilder of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethsaida Bethsaida] knew the [[facts]] about these matters, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebedee Zebedee] told no one.

129:3.4 When [[Jesus]] returned to [[Palestine]], he did nothing to change the [[opinion]] of his [[family]] that he had gone from [[Jerusalem]] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria]; he permitted them to continue in the [[belief]] that all the time he had been [[absent]] from [[Palestine]] had been spent in that city of [[learning]] and [[culture]]. Only [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebedee Zebedee] the boatbuilder of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethsaida Bethsaida] knew the [[facts]] about these matters, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebedee Zebedee] told no one.

129:3.5 In all your [[efforts]] to decipher the [[meaning]] of [[Jesus]]' life on [[Urantia]], you must be mindful of the [[motivation]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120#120:4._THE_INCARNATION.E2.80.94MAKING_TWO_ONE Michael bestowal]. If you would [[comprehend]] the [[meaning]] of many of his apparently strange doings, you must [[discern]] the [[purpose]] of his [[sojourn]] on your world. He was consistently careful not to build up an overattractive and [[attention]]-consuming [[personal]] [[career]]. He wanted to make no unusual or overpowering appeals to his fellow men. He was [[dedicated]] to the [[work]] of [[revealing]] the [[Universal Father|heavenly Father]] to his fellow [[mortals]] and at the same time was [[consecrated]] to the [[sublime]] task of living his [[mortal]] [[earth]] life all the while subject to the will of the same [[Paradise Father]].

129:3.5 In all your [[efforts]] to decipher the [[meaning]] of [[Jesus]]' life on [[Urantia]], you must be mindful of the [[motivation]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120#120:4._THE_INCARNATION.E2.80.94MAKING_TWO_ONE Michael bestowal]. If you would [[comprehend]] the [[meaning]] of many of his apparently strange doings, you must [[discern]] the [[purpose]] of his [[sojourn]] on your world. He was consistently careful not to build up an overattractive and [[attention]]-consuming [[personal]] [[career]]. He wanted to make no unusual or overpowering appeals to his fellow men. He was [[dedicated]] to the [[work]] of [[revealing]] the [[Universal Father|heavenly Father]] to his fellow [[mortals]] and at the same time was [[consecrated]] to the [[sublime]] task of living his [[mortal]] [[earth]] life all the while subject to the will of the same [[Paradise Father]].

129:3.6 It will also always be helpful in [[understanding]] [[Jesus]]' life on [[earth]] if all [[mortal]] [[students]] of this [[divine]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120#120:4._THE_INCARNATION.E2.80.94MAKING_TWO_ONE bestowal] will remember that, while he lived this life of [[incarnation]] on [[Urantia]], he lived it for his [[Nebadon|entire universe]]. There was something special and [[inspiring]] [[associated]] with the life he lived in the [[flesh]] of [[mortal]] [[nature]] for every single [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited sphere] throughout all the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]]. The same is also true of all those worlds which have become habitable since the eventful times of his [[sojourn]] on [[Urantia]]. And it will likewise be equally true of all worlds which may become inhabited by [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]] in all the [[future]] [[history]] of this [[local universe]].

129:3.6 It will also always be helpful in [[understanding]] [[Jesus]]' life on [[earth]] if all [[mortal]] [[students]] of this [[divine]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120#120:4._THE_INCARNATION.E2.80.94MAKING_TWO_ONE bestowal] will remember that, while he lived this life of [[incarnation]] on [[Urantia]], he lived it for his [[Nebadon|entire universe]]. There was something special and [[inspiring]] [[associated]] with the life he lived in the [[flesh]] of [[mortal]] [[nature]] for every single [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited sphere] throughout all the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]]. The same is also true of all those worlds which have become habitable since the eventful times of his [[sojourn]] on [[Urantia]]. And it will likewise be equally true of all worlds which may become inhabited by [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]] in all the [[future]] [[history]] of this [[local universe]].

129:3.7 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man], during the time and through the [[experience]]s of this tour of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman world], [[practically]] completed his [[educational]] contact-[[training]] with the [[diversified]] peoples of the world of his day and [[generation]]. By the time of his return to [[Nazareth]], through the medium of this [[travel]]-[[training]] he had just about learned how man lived and wrought out his [[existence]] on [[Urantia]].

129:3.7 The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man], during the time and through the [[experience]]s of this tour of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman world], [[practically]] completed his [[educational]] contact-[[training]] with the [[diversified]] peoples of the world of his day and [[generation]]. By the time of his return to [[Nazareth]], through the medium of this [[travel]]-[[training]] he had just about learned how man lived and wrought out his [[existence]] on [[Urantia]].

129:3.8 The real [[purpose]] of his trip around the [[Mediterranean]] basin was to know men. He came very close to hundreds of [[humankind]] on this [[journey]]. He met and loved all manner of men, [[rich]] and [[poor]], high and low, black and white, educated and uneducated, cultured and uncultured, animalistic and [[spiritual]], religious and irreligious, [[moral]] and immoral.

129:3.8 The real [[purpose]] of his trip around the [[Mediterranean]] basin was to know men. He came very close to hundreds of [[humankind]] on this [[journey]]. He met and loved all manner of men, [[rich]] and [[poor]], high and low, black and white, educated and uneducated, cultured and uncultured, animalistic and [[spiritual]], religious and irreligious, [[moral]] and immoral.

129:3.9 On this [[Mediterranean]] [[journey]] [[Jesus]] made great advances in his [[human]] task of mastering the [[material]] and [[mortal]] [[mind]], and his [[indwelling Adjuster]] made great [[progress]] in the [[ascension]] and [[spiritual]] [[conquest]] of this same human [[intellect]]. By the end of this tour [[Jesus]] virtually knew—with all [[human]] certainty—that he was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_God Son of God], a [[Creator Son]] of the [[Universal Father]]. [[The Adjuster]] more and more was able to bring up in the [[mind]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] shadowy [[memories]] of his [[Paradise]] [[experience]] in [[association]] with his [[Universal Father|divine Father]] ere he ever came to [[organize]] and [[administer]] this [[local universe]] of [[Nebadon]]. Thus did [[the Adjuster]], little by little, bring to [[Jesus]]' human [[consciousness]] those [[necessary]] memories of his former and [[divine]] [[existence]] in the various [[epochs]] of the well-nigh [[eternal]] [[past]]. The last [[episode]] of his prehuman [[experience]] to be brought forth by [[the Adjuster]] was his [[farewell]] [[conference]] with [[Immanuel]] of [[Salvington]] just before his [[surrender]] of [[conscious]] [[personality]] to embark upon the [[Urantia]] [[incarnation]]. And this final [[memory]] picture of prehuman [[existence]] was made clear in [[Jesus]]' [[consciousness]] on the very day of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136#136:2._THE_BAPTISM_OF_JESUS baptism by John] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_river Jordan].

129:3.9 On this [[Mediterranean]] [[journey]] [[Jesus]] made great advances in his [[human]] task of mastering the [[material]] and [[mortal]] [[mind]], and his [[indwelling Adjuster]] made great [[progress]] in the [[ascension]] and [[spiritual]] [[conquest]] of this same human [[intellect]]. By the end of this tour [[Jesus]] virtually knew—with all [[human]] certainty—that he was a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_God Son of God], a [[Creator Son]] of the [[Universal Father]]. [[The Adjuster]] more and more was able to bring up in the [[mind]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] shadowy [[memories]] of his [[Paradise]] [[experience]] in [[association]] with his [[Universal Father|divine Father]] ere he ever came to [[organize]] and [[administer]] this [[local universe]] of [[Nebadon]]. Thus did [[the Adjuster]], little by little, bring to [[Jesus]]' human [[consciousness]] those [[necessary]] memories of his former and [[divine]] [[existence]] in the various [[epochs]] of the well-nigh [[eternal]] [[past]]. The last [[episode]] of his prehuman [[experience]] to be brought forth by [[the Adjuster]] was his [[farewell]] [[conference]] with [[Immanuel]] of [[Salvington]] just before his [[surrender]] of [[conscious]] [[personality]] to embark upon the [[Urantia]] [[incarnation]]. And this final [[memory]] picture of prehuman [[existence]] was made clear in [[Jesus]]' [[consciousness]] on the very day of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136#136:2._THE_BAPTISM_OF_JESUS baptism by John] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_river Jordan].

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