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126:2.2 Just at the time when prospects were [[good]] and the [[future]] looked bright, an apparently cruel hand struck down the head of this [[Nazareth]] [[Home|household]], the affairs of this home were disrupted, and every [[plan]] for [[Jesus]] and his [[future]] [[education]] was demolished. This [[carpenter]] lad, now just past fourteen years of age, [[awakened]] to the [[realization]] that he had not only to fulfill the commission of his [[heavenly Father]] to [[reveal]] the [[divine]] [[nature]] on [[earth]] and in the [[flesh]], but that his young [[human]] [[nature]] must also shoulder the [[responsibility]] of caring for his [[widowed]] [[mother]] and [[seven]] brothers and sisters—and another yet to be born. This lad of [[Nazareth]] now became the sole [[support]] and [[comfort]] of this so suddenly [[bereaved]] [[family]]. Thus were [[permitted]] those occurrences of the [[natural]] order of [[events]] on [[Urantia]] which would [[force]] this [[young man]] of [[destiny]] so early to [[assume]] these heavy but highly [[educational]] and [[disciplinary]] [[responsibilities]] attendant upon becoming the head of a [[human]] [[family]], of becoming [[father]] to his own [[Siblings|brothers and sisters]], of supporting and protecting his [[mother]], of [[functioning]] as guardian of his [[father]]'s [[home]], the only home he was to know while on this world.

126:2.2 Just at the time when prospects were [[good]] and the [[future]] looked bright, an apparently cruel hand struck down the head of this [[Nazareth]] [[Home|household]], the affairs of this home were disrupted, and every [[plan]] for [[Jesus]] and his [[future]] [[education]] was demolished. This [[carpenter]] lad, now just past fourteen years of age, [[awakened]] to the [[realization]] that he had not only to fulfill the commission of his [[heavenly Father]] to [[reveal]] the [[divine]] [[nature]] on [[earth]] and in the [[flesh]], but that his young [[human]] [[nature]] must also shoulder the [[responsibility]] of caring for his [[widowed]] [[mother]] and [[seven]] brothers and sisters—and another yet to be born. This lad of [[Nazareth]] now became the sole [[support]] and [[comfort]] of this so suddenly [[bereaved]] [[family]]. Thus were [[permitted]] those occurrences of the [[natural]] order of [[events]] on [[Urantia]] which would [[force]] this [[young man]] of [[destiny]] so early to [[assume]] these heavy but highly [[educational]] and [[disciplinary]] [[responsibilities]] attendant upon becoming the head of a [[human]] [[family]], of becoming [[father]] to his own [[Siblings|brothers and sisters]], of supporting and protecting his [[mother]], of [[functioning]] as guardian of his [[father]]'s [[home]], the only home he was to know while on this world.

126:2.3 [[Jesus]] cheerfully [[accepted]] the [[responsibilities]] so suddenly thrust upon him, and he carried them [[faithfully]] to the end. At least one great [[problem]] and [[anticipated]] difficulty in his life had been tragically solved—he would not now be [[expected]] to go to [[Jerusalem]] to [[study]] under the [[rabbis]]. It remained always true that Jesus " sat at no man's feet. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_acts#Acts.22] He was ever willing to [[learn]] from even the [[humblest]] of little [[children]], but he never derived [[authority]] to teach [[truth]] from [[human]] [[sources]].

126:2.3 [[Jesus]] cheerfully [[accepted]] the [[responsibilities]] so suddenly thrust upon him, and he carried them [[faithfully]] to the end. At least one great [[problem]] and [[anticipated]] difficulty in his life had been tragically solved—he would not now be [[expected]] to go to [[Jerusalem]] to [[study]] under the [[rabbis]]. It remained always true that Jesus " sat at no man's feet. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_acts#Acts.22] He was ever willing to [[learn]] from even the [[humblest]] of little [[children]], but he never derived [[authority]] to teach [[truth]] from [[human]] [[sources]].

126:2.4 Still he knew nothing of the [[Gabriel]] visit to his [[mother]] before his [[birth]]; he only learned of this from [[John the Baptist|John]] on the day of his [[baptism]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136], at the beginning of his [[public]] [[ministry]].

126:2.4 Still he knew nothing of the [[Gabriel]] visit to his [[mother]] before his [[birth]]; he only learned of this from [[John the Baptist|John]] on the day of his [[baptism]][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136], at the beginning of his [[public]] [[ministry]].

126:2.5 As the years passed, this young [[carpenter]] of [[Nazareth]] increasingly [[measured]] every [[institution]] of [[society]] and every usage of [[religion]] by the unvarying test: What does it do for the [[human]] [[soul]]? does it bring [[God]] to man? does it bring man to God? While this [[youth]] did not wholly neglect the [[recreational]] and [[social]] aspects of life, more and more he [[devoted]] his time and energies to just two [[purposes]]: the care of his [[family]] and the [[preparation]] to [[Doing the will of God|do his Father's heavenly will]] on [[earth]].

126:2.5 As the years passed, this young [[carpenter]] of [[Nazareth]] increasingly [[measured]] every [[institution]] of [[society]] and every usage of [[religion]] by the unvarying test: What does it do for the [[human]] [[soul]]? does it bring [[God]] to man? does it bring man to God? While this [[youth]] did not wholly neglect the [[recreational]] and [[social]] aspects of life, more and more he [[devoted]] his time and energies to just two [[purposes]]: the care of his [[family]] and the [[preparation]] to [[Doing the will of God|do his Father's heavenly will]] on [[earth]].

126:2.8 But in spite of all that [[Jesus]] and the [[Nazareth]] [[neighbors]] could do to bring [[cheer]] into the [[home]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary], and even the [[children]], were overcast with [[sadness]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] was gone. Joseph was an unusual [[husband]] and [[father]], and they all missed him. And it seemed all the more [[tragic]] to think that he died ere they could speak to him or hear his [[farewell]] [[blessing]].

126:2.8 But in spite of all that [[Jesus]] and the [[Nazareth]] [[neighbors]] could do to bring [[cheer]] into the [[home]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary], and even the [[children]], were overcast with [[sadness]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] was gone. Joseph was an unusual [[husband]] and [[father]], and they all missed him. And it seemed all the more [[tragic]] to think that he died ere they could speak to him or hear his [[farewell]] [[blessing]].

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[[Category:Paper 126 - The Two Crucial Years]]

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