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126:0.1 Of all [[Jesus]]' [[earth]]-life [[experiences]], the fourteenth and fifteenth years were the most crucial. These two years, after he began to be [[self-conscious]] of [[divinity]] and [[destiny]], and before he achieved a large [[measure]] of [[communication]] with his indwelling [[Adjuster]], were the most trying of his [[eventful]] life on [[Urantia]]. It is this period of two years which should be called the great test, the real [[temptation]]. No [[human]] [[youth]], in passing through the early [[confusions]] and [[adjustment]] problems of [[adolescence]], ever [[experienced]] a more crucial testing than that which [[Jesus]] passed through during his [[transition]] from [[childhood]] to [[Youth|young manhood]].

126:0.2 This important period in [[Jesus]]' youthful [[development]] began with the conclusion of the [[Jerusalem]] [[visit]] and with his return to [[Nazareth]]. At first [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary] was [[happy]] in the [[thought]] that she had her boy back once more, that [[Jesus]] had returned [[home]] to be a [[dutiful]] son—not that he was ever anything else—and that he would henceforth be more [[responsive]] to her [[plans]] for his [[future]] life. But she was not for long to bask in this sunshine of [[maternal]] [[delusion]] and unrecognized [[family]] [[pride]]; very soon she was to be more completely [[disillusioned]]. More and more the boy was in the company of his [[father]]; less and less did he come to her with his [[problems]], while increasingly both his [[parents]] failed to [[comprehend]] his frequent alternation between the affairs of this world and the [[contemplation]] of his relation to [[Doing the will of God|his Father's business]]. Frankly, they did not [[understand]] him, but they did truly [[love]] him.

126:0.3 As he grew older, [[Jesus]]' [[pity]] and [[love]] for the Jewish people deepened, but with the passing years, there [[developed]] in his [[mind]] a growing [[righteous]] resentment of the [[presence]] in [[the Father]]'s [[temple]] of the [[politically]] appointed [[priests]]. [[Jesus]] had great [[respect]] for the [[sincere]] [[Pharisees]] and the [[honest]] [[scribes]], but he held the [[hypocritical]] [[Pharisees]] and the dishonest [[theologians]] in great [[contempt]]; he looked with [[disdain]] upon all those [[religious]] [[leaders]] who were not [[sincere]]. When he scrutinized the [[leadership]] of [[Israel]], he was sometimes tempted to look with [[favor]] on the [[possibility]] of his becoming [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_messianism the Messiah] of [[Jewish]] [[expectation]], but he never yielded to such a [[temptation]].

126:0.4 The [[story]] of his exploits among the [[wise]] men of the [[temple]] in [[Jerusalem]] was gratifying to all [[Nazareth]], especially to his former [[teachers]] in the [[synagogue]] [[school]]. For a time his [[praise]] was on everybody's lips. All the village recounted his [[childhood]] [[wisdom]] and praiseworthy [[conduct]] and [[predicted]] that he was [[destined]] to become a great [[leader]] in [[Israel]]; at last a really great [[teacher]] was to come out of [[Nazareth]] in [[Galilee]]. And they all looked forward to the time when he would be fifteen years of age so that he might be [[permitted]] regularly to read the [[Scriptures]] in the [[synagogue]] on the [[Sabbath]] day.

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