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121:8.10 4. ''[[The Gospel of John]]''. The Gospel according to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_139#139:4._JOHN_ZEBEDEE John] relates much of [[Jesus]]' work in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea Judea] and around [[Jerusalem]] which is not contained in the other [[records]]. This is the so-called [[Gospel according to John]] the son of Zebedee, and though John did not write it, he did inspire it. Since its first [[writing]] it has several times been edited to make it appear to have been written by John himself. When this record was made, John had the other [[Gospels]], and he saw that much had been omitted; accordingly, in the year [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_AD A.D. 101] he encouraged his associate, Nathan, a [[Greek]] [[Jew]] from Caesarea, to begin the writing. John supplied his material from [[memory]] and by reference to the three records already in existence. He had no written records of his own. The Epistle known as "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_John First John]" was written by John himself as a covering letter for the work which Nathan executed under his direction.

121:8.10 4. ''[[The Gospel of John]]''. The Gospel according to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_139#139:4._JOHN_ZEBEDEE John] relates much of [[Jesus]]' work in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea Judea] and around [[Jerusalem]] which is not contained in the other [[records]]. This is the so-called [[Gospel according to John]] the son of Zebedee, and though John did not write it, he did inspire it. Since its first [[writing]] it has several times been edited to make it appear to have been written by John himself. When this record was made, John had the other [[Gospels]], and he saw that much had been omitted; accordingly, in the year [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_AD A.D. 101] he encouraged his associate, Nathan, a [[Greek]] [[Jew]] from Caesarea, to begin the writing. John supplied his material from [[memory]] and by reference to the three records already in existence. He had no written records of his own. The Epistle known as "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_John First John]" was written by John himself as a covering letter for the work which Nathan executed under his direction.

121:8.11 All these [[writers]] presented honest pictures of [[Jesus]] as they saw, remembered, or had learned of him, and as their concepts of these distant events were affected by their subsequent espousal of [[Paul]]'s theology of [[Christianity]]. And these records, imperfect as they are, have been sufficient to [[change]] the [[course]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_III._The_History_of_Urantia history of Urantia] for almost two thousand years.

121:8.11 All these [[writers]] presented honest pictures of [[Jesus]] as they saw, remembered, or had learned of him, and as their concepts of these distant events were affected by their subsequent espousal of [[Paul]]'s theology of [[Christianity]]. And these records, imperfect as they are, have been sufficient to [[change]] the [[course]] of the history of Urantia for almost [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Millennium two] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Millennium thousand years].

121:8.12 Acknowledgment: In carrying out my commission to restate the teachings and retell the doings of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]], I have drawn freely upon all [[sources]] of record and [[planetary]] [[information]]. My ruling [[motive]] has been to [[prepare]] a record which will not only be [[enlighten]]ing to the [[generation]] of men now living, but which may also be helpful to all [[future]] [[generations]]. From the vast store of [[information]] made available to me, I have chosen that which is best suited to the accomplishment of this [[purpose]]. As far as possible I have derived my [[information]] from purely [[human]] [[sources]]. Only when such sources failed, have I resorted to those records which are [[superhuman]]. When [[ideas]] and concepts of [[Jesus]]' life and teachings have been acceptably expressed by a human mind, I invariably gave preference to such apparently human [[thought]] patterns. Although I have sought to [[adjust]] the verbal [[expression]] the better to conform to our [[concept]] of the real [[meaning]] and the true import of [[the Master]]'s life and teachings, as far as possible, I have adhered to the [[actual]] human [[concept]] and thought [[pattern]] in all my [[narratives]]. I well know that those concepts which have had [[origin]] in the human mind will prove more acceptable and helpful to all other human minds. When unable to find the necessary concepts in the human records or in human [[expressions]], I have next resorted to the [[memory]] resources of my own order of earth creatures, the [[midwayers]]. And when that secondary source of [[information]] proved inadequate, I have unhesitatingly resorted to the superplanetary sources of [[information]].

121:8.12 Acknowledgment: In carrying out my commission to restate the teachings and retell the doings of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]], I have drawn freely upon all [[sources]] of record and [[planetary]] [[information]]. My ruling [[motive]] has been to [[prepare]] a record which will not only be [[enlighten]]ing to the [[generation]] of men now living, but which may also be helpful to all [[future]] [[generations]]. From the vast store of [[information]] made available to me, I have chosen that which is best suited to the accomplishment of this [[purpose]]. As far as possible I have derived my [[information]] from purely [[human]] [[sources]]. Only when such sources failed, have I resorted to those records which are [[superhuman]]. When [[ideas]] and concepts of [[Jesus]]' life and teachings have been acceptably expressed by a human mind, I invariably gave preference to such apparently human [[thought]] patterns. Although I have sought to [[adjust]] the verbal [[expression]] the better to conform to our [[concept]] of the real [[meaning]] and the true import of [[the Master]]'s life and teachings, as far as possible, I have adhered to the [[actual]] human [[concept]] and thought [[pattern]] in all my [[narratives]]. I well know that those concepts which have had [[origin]] in the human mind will prove more acceptable and helpful to all other human minds. When unable to find the necessary concepts in the human records or in human [[expressions]], I have next resorted to the [[memory]] resources of my own order of earth creatures, the [[midwayers]]. And when that secondary source of [[information]] proved inadequate, I have unhesitatingly resorted to the superplanetary sources of [[information]].