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The Original Life and Teachings of Jesus One of the most important things in human living is to find out what Jesus believed, to discover his ideals, and to strive for the achievement of his exalted life purpose. Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it.

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Part IV: The Life and Teachings of Jesus: Papers 120-196---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 enlightening 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.------121:8.13----- The memoranda which I have collected, and from which I have prepared this narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus -- aside from the memory of the record of the Apostle Andrew ------ embrace thought gems and superior concepts of Jesus' teachings assembled from more than two thousand human beings who have lived on earth from the days of Jesus down to the time of the inditing of these revelations, more correctly restatements. The revelatory permission has been utilized only when the human record and human concepts failed to supply an adequate thought pattern. My revelatory commission forbade me to resort to extrahuman sources of either information or expression until such a time as I could testify that I had failed in my efforts to find the required conceptual expression in purely human sources.-------121:8.14--- While I, with the collaboration of my eleven associate fellow midwayers and under the supervision of the Melchizedek of record, have portrayed this narrative in accordance with my concept of its effective arrangement and in response to my choice of immediate expression, nevertheless, the majority of the ideas and even some of the effective expressions which I have thus utilized had their origin in the minds of the men of many races who have lived on earth during the intervening generations, right on down to those who are still alive at the time of this undertaking. In many ways I have served more as a collector and editor than as an original narrator. I have unhesitatingly appropriated those ideas and concepts, preferably human, which would enable me to create the most effective portraiture of Jesus' life, and which would qualify me to restate his matchless teachings in the most strikingly helpful and universally uplifting phraseology. In behalf of the Brotherhood of the United Midwayers of Urantia, I most gratefully acknowledge our indebtedness to all sources of record and concept which have been hereinafter utilized in the further elaboration of our restatement of Jesus' life on earth.

Part IV: The Life and Teachings of Jesus: Papers 120-196

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Paper 120 THE BESTOWAL OF MICHAEL ON URANTIA

Paper 121 THE TIMES OF MICHAEL'S BESTOWAL

Paper 122 BIRTH AND INFANCY OF JESUS

Paper 123 THE EARLY CHILDHOOD OF JESUS

Paper 124 THE LATER CHILDHOOD OF JESUS

Paper 125 JESUS AT JERUSALEM

Paper 126 THE TWO CRUCIAL YEARS

Paper 127 THE ADOLESCENT YEARS

Paper 128 JESUS' EARLY MANHOOD

Paper 129 THE LATER ADULT LIFE OF JESUS

Paper 130 ON THE WAY TO ROME

Paper 131 THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS

Paper 132 THE SOJOURN AT ROME

Paper 133 THE RETURN FROM ROME

Paper 134 THE TRANSITION YEARS

Paper 135 JOHN THE BAPTIST

Paper 136 BAPTISM AND THE FORTY DAYS

Paper 137 TARRYING TIME IN GALILEE

Paper 138 TRAINING THE KINGDOM'S MESSENGERS

Paper 139 THE TWELVE APOSTLES

Paper 140 THE ORDINATION OF THE TWELVE

Paper 141BEGINNING THE PUBLIC WORK

Paper 142 THE PASSOVER AT JERUSALEM

Paper 143 GOING THROUGH SAMARIA

Paper 144 AT GILBOA AND IN THE DECAPOLIS

Paper 145 FOUR EVENTFUL DAYS AT CAPERNAUM

Paper 146 FIRST PREACHING TOUR OF GALILEE

Paper 147 THE INTERLUDE VISIT TO JERUSALEM

Paper 148 TRAINING EVANGELISTS AT BETHSAIDA

Paper 149 THE SECOND PREACHING TOUR

Paper 150 THE THIRD PREACHING TOUR

Paper 151 THE THIRD PREACHING TOUR

Paper 152 EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE CAPERNAUM CRISIS

Paper 153 THE CRISIS AT CAPERNAUM

Paper 154 LAST DAYS AT CAPERNAUM

Paper 155 FLEEING THROUGH NORTHERN GALILEE

Paper 156 THE SOJOURN AT TYRE AND SIDON

Paper 157 AT CAESAREA PHILIPPI

Paper 158 THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION

Paper 159 THE DECAPOLIS TOUR

Paper 160 RODAN OF ALEXANDRIA

Paper 161 FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WITH RODAN

Paper 162 AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

Paper 163 ORDINATION OF THE SEVENTY AT MAGADAN

Paper 164 THE FEAST OF DEDICATION

Paper 165 THE PEREAN MISSION BEGINS

Paper 166 LAST VISIT TO NORTHERN PEREA

Paper 167 THE VISIT TO PHILADELPHIA

Paper 168 THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS

Paper 169 LAST TEACHING AT PELLA

Paper 170 THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

Paper 171 ON THE WAY TO JERUSALEM

Paper 172 GOING INTO JERUSALEM

Paper 173 MONDAY IN JERUSALEM

Paper 174 TUESDAY MORNING IN THE TEMPLE

Paper 175 THE LAST TEMPLE DISCOURSE

Paper 176 TUESDAY EVENING ON MOUNT OLIVET

Paper 177 WEDNESDAY,THE REST DAY

Paper 178 LAST DAY AT THE CAMP

Paper 179 THE LAST SUPPER

Paper 180 THE FAREWELL DISCOURSE

Paper 181 FINAL ADMONITIONS AND WARNINGS

Paper 182 IN GETHSEMANE

Paper 183 THE BETRAYAL AND ARREST OF JESUS

Paper 184 BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN COURT

Paper 185 THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE

Paper 186 JUST BEFORE THE CRUCIFIXION

Paper 187 THE CRUCIFIXION

Paper 188 THE TIME OF THETOMB

Paper 189 THE RESURRECTION

Paper 190 MORONTIA APPEARANCES OF-JESUS

Paper 191 APPEARANCES TO THE APOSTLES AND OTHER LEADERS

Paper 192 APPEARANCES IN GALILEE

Paper 193 FINAL APPEARANCES AND ASCENSION

Paper 194 BESTOWAL OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH

Paper 195 AFTER PENTECOST

Paper 196 THE FAITH OF JESUS

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Jesus of Nazareth must not be longer sacrificed to even the splendid concept of the glorified Christ. What a transcendent service if, through this revelation, the Son of Man should be recovered from the tomb of traditional theology and be presented as the living Jesus to the church that bears his name, and to all other religions!