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129:1.4 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebedee Zebedee] was a moderately well-to-do man; his boatbuilding shops were on the [[lake]] to the south of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capernaum Capernaum], and his [[home]] was situated down the [[lake]] shore near the fishing [[headquarters]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethsaida Bethsaida]. [[Jesus]] lived in the [[home]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebedee Zebedee] during the year and more he remained at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capernaum Capernaum]. He had long worked alone in the world, that is, without a [[father]], and greatly enjoyed this period of working with a [[father]]-[[partner]].

129:1.4 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebedee Zebedee] was a moderately well-to-do man; his boatbuilding shops were on the [[lake]] to the south of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capernaum Capernaum], and his [[home]] was situated down the [[lake]] shore near the fishing [[headquarters]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethsaida Bethsaida]. [[Jesus]] lived in the [[home]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebedee Zebedee] during the year and more he remained at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capernaum Capernaum]. He had long worked alone in the world, that is, without a [[father]], and greatly enjoyed this period of working with a [[father]]-[[partner]].

129:1.5 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebedee Zebedee]'s [[wife]], Salome, was a [[relative]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annas Annas], onetime [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_High_Priests_of_Israel high priest] at [[Jerusalem]] and still the most [[influential]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadducees Sadducean] group, having been deposed only eight years previously. Salome became a great admirer of [[Jesus]]. She [[loved]] him as she loved her own sons, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_son_of_Zebedee James], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Apostle John], and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_149#PAPER_149:_THE_SECOND_PREACHING_TOUR David], while her four daughters looked upon Jesus as their [[elder]] [[brother]]. Jesus often went out fishing with James, John, and David, and they [[learned]] that he was an experienced fisherman as well as an expert boatbuilder.

129:1.5 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebedee Zebedee]'s [[wife]], Salome, was a [[relative]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annas Annas], onetime [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_High_Priests_of_Israel high priest] at [[Jerusalem]] and still the most [[influential]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadducees Sadducean] group, having been deposed only eight years previously. Salome became a great admirer of [[Jesus]]. She [[loved]] him as she loved her own sons, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_son_of_Zebedee James], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Apostle John], and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_149#PAPER_149:_THE_SECOND_PREACHING_TOUR David], while her four daughters looked upon Jesus as their [[elder]] [[brother]]. Jesus often went out fishing with James, John, and David, and they [[learned]] that he was an experienced fisherman as well as an expert boatbuilder.

129:1.6 All this year [[Jesus]] sent [[money]] each month to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_the_Just James]. He returned to [[Nazareth]] in October to attend Martha's wedding, and he was not again in Nazareth for over two years, when he returned shortly before the double [[wedding]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(brother_of_Jesus) Simon] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude,_brother_of_Jesus Jude].

129:1.6 All this year [[Jesus]] sent [[money]] each month to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_the_Just James]. He returned to [[Nazareth]] in October to attend Martha's wedding, and he was not again in Nazareth for over two years, when he returned shortly before the double [[wedding]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(brother_of_Jesus) Simon] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude,_brother_of_Jesus Jude].

129:1.14 This year [[Jesus]] made great advances in the [[Seven psychic circles|ascendant mastery]] of his human [[mind]] and [[attained]] new and high levels of [[conscious]] [[contact]] with his indwelling [[Thought Adjuster]].

129:1.14 This year [[Jesus]] made great advances in the [[Seven psychic circles|ascendant mastery]] of his human [[mind]] and [[attained]] new and high levels of [[conscious]] [[contact]] with his indwelling [[Thought Adjuster]].

129:1.15 This was the last year of his settled life. Never again did [[Jesus]] spend a whole year in one place or at one undertaking. The days of his [[earth]] [[pilgrimage]]s were rapidly approaching. Periods of [[intense]] [[activity]] were not far in the [[future]], but there were now about to [[intervene]] between his [[simple]] but [[intense]]ly [[active]] life of the [[past]] and his still more intense and strenuous [[public]] [[ministry]], a few years of extensive [[travel]] and highly [[diversified]] [[personal]] [[activity]]. His [[training]] as a man of the realm had to be completed before he could enter upon his [[career]] of [[teaching]] and preaching as the perfected [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120#120:4._THE_INCARNATION.E2.80.94MAKING_TWO_ONE God-man] of the [[divine]] and posthuman [[phases]] of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:7._THE_SEVENTH_AND_FINAL_BESTOWAL Urantia bestowal].

129:1.15 This was the last year of his settled life. Never again did [[Jesus]] spend a whole year in one place or at one undertaking. The days of his [[earth]] [[pilgrimage]]s were rapidly approaching. Periods of [[intense]] [[activity]] were not far in the [[future]], but there were now about to [[intervene]] between his [[simple]] but [[intense]]ly [[active]] life of the [[past]] and his still more intense and strenuous [[public]] [[ministry]], a few years of extensive [[travel]] and highly [[diversified]] [[personal]] [[activity]]. His [[training]] as a man of the realm had to be completed before he could enter upon his [[career]] of [[teaching]] and preaching as the perfected [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120#120:4._THE_INCARNATION.E2.80.94MAKING_TWO_ONE God-man] of the [[divine]] and posthuman [[phases]] of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:7._THE_SEVENTH_AND_FINAL_BESTOWAL Urantia bestowal].

==129:2. THE TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR (A.D. 22)==

==129:2. THE TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR (A.D. 22)==

==129:3. THE TWENTY-NINTH YEAR (A.D. 23)==

==129:3. THE TWENTY-NINTH YEAR (A.D. 23)==

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 [http://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 [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]].

129:3.4 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 [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.

129:3.5 In all your [[efforts]] to decipher the [[meaning]] of [[Jesus]]' life on [[Urantia]], you must be mindful of the [[motivation]] of the [http://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]] [http://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 [http://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 [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]].

129:3.8 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 [http://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 [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].

==129:4. THE HUMAN JESUS==

==129:4. THE HUMAN JESUS==

129:4.1 To the onlooking [[celestial]] [[intelligences]] of the [[local universe]], this [[Mediterranean]] trip was the most enthralling of all [[Jesus]]' [[earth]] [[experiences]], at least of all his [[career]] right up to the [[event]] of his [[crucifixion]] and [[mortal]] [[death]]. This was the fascinating period of his [[personal]] [[ministry]] in [[contrast]] with the soon-following [[epoch]] of [[public]] ministry. This [[unique]] episode was all the more engrossing because he was at this time still the [[carpenter]] of [[Nazareth]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat_building boatbuilder] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capernaum Capernaum], the [[scribe]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus]; he was still the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man]. He had not yet [[achieved]] the complete [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_110#110:6._THE_SEVEN_PSYCHIC_CIRCLES mastery of his human mind]; [[the Adjuster]] had not fully mastered and counterparted the [[mortal]] [[identity]]. He was still a man among men.

129:4.1 To the onlooking [[celestial]] [[intelligences]] of the [[local universe]], this [[Mediterranean]] trip was the most enthralling of all [[Jesus]]' [[earth]] [[experiences]], at least of all his [[career]] right up to the [[event]] of his [[crucifixion]] and [[mortal]] [[death]]. This was the fascinating period of his [[personal]] [[ministry]] in [[contrast]] with the soon-following [[epoch]] of [[public]] ministry. This [[unique]] episode was all the more engrossing because he was at this time still the [[carpenter]] of [[Nazareth]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat_building boatbuilder] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capernaum Capernaum], the [[scribe]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus]; he was still the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man]. He had not yet [[achieved]] the complete [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_110#110:6._THE_SEVEN_PSYCHIC_CIRCLES mastery of his human mind]; [[the Adjuster]] had not fully mastered and counterparted the [[mortal]] [[identity]]. He was still a man among men.

129:4.2 The [[purely]] human [[religious]] [[experience]]—the [[personal]] [[spiritual]] [[growth]]—of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] well-nigh reached the [[apex]] of [[attainment]] during this, the twenty-ninth year. This [[experience]] of [[spiritual]] [[development]] was a consistently [[gradual]] [[growth]] from the [[moment]] of the arrival of his [[Thought Adjuster]] until the day of the completion and [[confirmation]] of that [[natural]] and [[normal]] [[human]] [[relationship]] between the [[material]] [[mind]] of man and the mind-[[endowment]] of the [[spirit]]—the [[phenomenon]] of the making of these [[two]] minds [[one]], the [[experience]] which the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] [[attained]] in completion and finality, as an [[incarnated]] mortal of the realm, on the day of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136#136:2._THE_BAPTISM_OF_JESUS baptism] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_river Jordan].

129:4.2 The [[purely]] human [[religious]] [[experience]]—the [[personal]] [[spiritual]] [[growth]]—of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] well-nigh reached the [[apex]] of [[attainment]] during this, the twenty-ninth year. This [[experience]] of [[spiritual]] [[development]] was a consistently [[gradual]] [[growth]] from the [[moment]] of the arrival of his [[Thought Adjuster]] until the day of the completion and [[confirmation]] of that [[natural]] and [[normal]] [[human]] [[relationship]] between the [[material]] [[mind]] of man and the mind-[[endowment]] of the [[spirit]]—the [[phenomenon]] of the making of these [[two]] minds [[one]], the [[experience]] which the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] [[attained]] in completion and finality, as an [[incarnated]] mortal of the realm, on the day of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136#136:2._THE_BAPTISM_OF_JESUS baptism] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_river Jordan].

129:4.3 Throughout these years, while he did not [[appear]] to [[engage]] in so many [[seasons]] of [[formal]] [[communion]] with [[Universal Father|his Father in heaven]], he perfected increasingly [[effective]] [[methods]] of [[personal]] [[communication]] with the [[Thought Adjuster|indwelling spirit]] [[presence]] of the [[Paradise Father]]. He lived a real life, a full life, and a truly [[normal]], [[natural]], and [[average]] life in the [[flesh]]. He knows from [[personal]] [[experience]] the equivalent of the [[actuality]] of the entire sum and substance of the living of the life of [[Human Condition|human being]]s on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 material worlds] of [[time and space]].

129:4.3 Throughout these years, while he did not [[appear]] to [[engage]] in so many [[seasons]] of [[formal]] [[communion]] with [[Universal Father|his Father in heaven]], he perfected increasingly [[effective]] [[methods]] of [[personal]] [[communication]] with the [[Thought Adjuster|indwelling spirit]] [[presence]] of the [[Paradise Father]]. He lived a real life, a full life, and a truly [[normal]], [[natural]], and [[average]] life in the [[flesh]]. He knows from [[personal]] [[experience]] the equivalent of the [[actuality]] of the entire sum and substance of the living of the life of [[Human Condition|human being]]s on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 material worlds] of [[time and space]].

129:4.4 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] [[experienced]] those wide [[Spectrum|ranges]] of [[human]] [[emotion]] which reach from superb [[joy]] to [[profound]] [[sorrow]]. He was a child of [[joy]] and a [[being]] of rare good [[humor]]; likewise was he a " man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Isaiah#Chapter_.53] In a [[spiritual]] sense, he did live through the [[mortal]] life from the bottom to the top, from the beginning to the end. From a [[material]] [[point of view]], he might appear to have [[escaped]] living through both [[social]] [[extreme]]s of [[human]] [[existence]], but [[intellectually]] he became wholly familiar with the entire and complete [[experience]] of [[humankind]].

129:4.4 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] [[experienced]] those wide [[Spectrum|ranges]] of [[human]] [[emotion]] which reach from superb [[joy]] to [[profound]] [[sorrow]]. He was a child of [[joy]] and a [[being]] of rare good [[humor]]; likewise was he a " man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Isaiah#Chapter_.53] In a [[spiritual]] sense, he did live through the [[mortal]] life from the bottom to the top, from the beginning to the end. From a [[material]] [[point of view]], he might appear to have [[escaped]] living through both [[social]] [[extreme]]s of [[human]] [[existence]], but [[intellectually]] he became wholly familiar with the entire and complete [[experience]] of [[humankind]].

129:4.5 [[Jesus]] knows about the [[thoughts]] and [[feelings]], the urges and [[impulses]], of the [[evolutionary]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascendant mortals] of the realms, from [[birth]] to [[death]]. He has lived the [[human]] life from the beginnings of [[physical]], [[intellectual]], and [[spiritual]] [[selfhood]] up through [[infancy]], [[childhood]], [[youth]], and [[Maturity|adulthood]]—even to the [[human]] [[experience]] of [[death]]. He not only passed through these usual and familiar human periods of [[intellectual]] and [[spiritual]] advancement, but he also fully experienced those higher and more advanced [[phases]] of [[human]] and [[Thought Adjuster|Adjuster]] [[reconciliation]] which so few [[Urantia]] [[mortals]] ever [[attain]]. And thus he experienced the full life of [[mortal]] man, not only as it is lived on your world, but also as it is lived on all other [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds] of [[time and space]], even on the highest and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_55 most advanced of all the worlds] settled in [[light and life]].

129:4.5 [[Jesus]] knows about the [[thoughts]] and [[feelings]], the urges and [[impulses]], of the [[evolutionary]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascendant mortals] of the realms, from [[birth]] to [[death]]. He has lived the [[human]] life from the beginnings of [[physical]], [[intellectual]], and [[spiritual]] [[selfhood]] up through [[infancy]], [[childhood]], [[youth]], and [[Maturity|adulthood]]—even to the [[human]] [[experience]] of [[death]]. He not only passed through these usual and familiar human periods of [[intellectual]] and [[spiritual]] advancement, but he also fully experienced those higher and more advanced [[phases]] of [[human]] and [[Thought Adjuster|Adjuster]] [[reconciliation]] which so few [[Urantia]] [[mortals]] ever [[attain]]. And thus he experienced the full life of [[mortal]] man, not only as it is lived on your world, but also as it is lived on all other [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds] of [[time and space]], even on the highest and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_55 most advanced of all the worlds] settled in [[light and life]].

129:4.6 Although this [[perfect]] life which he lived in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]] may not have received the unqualified and [[universal]] [[approval]] of his fellow [[mortals]], those who chanced to be his contemporaries on [[earth]], still, the life which [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] lived in the [[flesh]] and on [[Urantia]] did receive full and unqualified [[acceptance]] by the [[Universal Father]] as constituting at one and the [[same time]], and in one and the same [[personality]]-life, the fullness of the [[revelation]] of the [[eternal]] [[God]] to [[mortal]] man and the presentation of perfected [[human]] [[personality]] to the [[satisfaction]] of the [[Infinite]] [[Creator]].

129:4.6 Although this [[perfect]] life which he lived in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]] may not have received the unqualified and [[universal]] [[approval]] of his fellow [[mortals]], those who chanced to be his contemporaries on [[earth]], still, the life which [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] lived in the [[flesh]] and on [[Urantia]] did receive full and unqualified [[acceptance]] by the [[Universal Father]] as constituting at one and the [[same time]], and in one and the same [[personality]]-life, the fullness of the [[revelation]] of the [[eternal]] [[God]] to [[mortal]] man and the presentation of perfected [[human]] [[personality]] to the [[satisfaction]] of the [[Infinite]] [[Creator]].

129:4.7 And this was his true and [[supreme]] [[purpose]]. He did not come down to live on [[Urantia]] as the [[perfect]] and detailed example for any child or adult, any man or woman, in that age or any other. True it is, indeed, that in his full, rich, [[beautiful]], and [[noble]] life we may all find much that is exquisitely exemplary, [[divinely]] [[inspiring]], but this is because he lived a true and genuinely human life. [[Jesus]] did not live his life on [[earth]] in order to set an example for all other [[human being]]s to [[copy]]. He lived this life in the [[flesh]] by the same [[mercy]] [[ministry]] that you all may live your lives on [[earth]]; and as he lived his [[mortal]] life in his day and as he was, so did he thereby set the example for all of us thus to live our lives in our day and as we are. You may not [[aspire]] to live his life, but you can resolve to live your lives even as, and by the same means that, he lived his. [[Jesus]] may not be the [[technical]] and detailed example for all the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE mortals of all ages] on all the realms of this [[local universe]], but he is everlastingly the [[inspiration]] and [[guide]] of all [[Paradise]] [[pilgrims]] from the worlds of initial [[ascension]] up through a [[universe of universes]] and on through [[Havona]] to [[Paradise]]. [[Jesus]] is the new and living way from [[man]] to [[God]], from the partial to the [[perfect]], from the earthly to the heavenly, from [[time]] to [[eternity]].

129:4.7 And this was his true and [[supreme]] [[purpose]]. He did not come down to live on [[Urantia]] as the [[perfect]] and detailed example for any child or adult, any man or woman, in that age or any other. True it is, indeed, that in his full, rich, [[beautiful]], and [[noble]] life we may all find much that is exquisitely exemplary, [[divinely]] [[inspiring]], but this is because he lived a true and genuinely human life. [[Jesus]] did not live his life on [[earth]] in order to set an example for all other [[human being]]s to [[copy]]. He lived this life in the [[flesh]] by the same [[mercy]] [[ministry]] that you all may live your lives on [[earth]]; and as he lived his [[mortal]] life in his day and as he was, so did he thereby set the example for all of us thus to live our lives in our day and as we are. You may not [[aspire]] to live his life, but you can resolve to live your lives even as, and by the same means that, he lived his. [[Jesus]] may not be the [[technical]] and detailed example for all the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE mortals of all ages] on all the realms of this [[local universe]], but he is everlastingly the [[inspiration]] and [[guide]] of all [[Paradise]] [[pilgrims]] from the worlds of initial [[ascension]] up through a [[universe of universes]] and on through [[Havona]] to [[Paradise]]. [[Jesus]] is the new and living way from [[man]] to [[God]], from the partial to the [[perfect]], from the earthly to the heavenly, from [[time]] to [[eternity]].

129:4.8 By the end of the twenty-ninth year [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] had virtually finished the living of the life required of [[mortals]] as [[sojourners]] in the [[flesh]]. He came on [[earth]] the fullness of [[God]] to be [[manifest]] to man; he had now become well-nigh the [[perfection]] of man awaiting the occasion to become [[manifest]] to [[God]]. And he did all of this before he was thirty years of age.

129:4.8 By the end of the twenty-ninth year [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] had virtually finished the living of the life required of [[mortals]] as [[sojourners]] in the [[flesh]]. He came on [[earth]] the fullness of [[God]] to be [[manifest]] to man; he had now become well-nigh the [[perfection]] of man awaiting the occasion to become [[manifest]] to [[God]]. And he did all of this before he was thirty years of age.

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[[Category: PART IV: The Life and Teachings of Jesus]]

[[Category: PART IV: The Life and Teachings of Jesus]]