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PART IV   The Life and Teachings of Jesus

This group of papers was sponsored by a commission of twelve Urantia midwayers acting under the supervision of a Melchizedek revelatory director.

The basis of this narrative was supplied by a secondary midwayer who was onetime assigned to the superhuman watchcare of the Apostle Andrew.

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 141 - Beginning 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 - Tarrying and Teaching by the Seaside

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 - At 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 the Tomb

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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Paper 120   The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia

120:0.1 (1323.1) ASSIGNED by Gabriel to supervise the restatement of the life of Michael when on Urantia and in the likeness of mortal flesh, I, the Melchizedek director of the revelatory commission intrusted with this task, am authorized to present this narrative of certain events which immediately preceded the Creator Son’s arrival on Urantia to embark upon the terminal phase of his universe bestowal experience. To live such identical lives as he imposes upon the intelligent beings of his own creation, thus to bestow himself in the likeness of his various orders of created beings, is a part of the price which every Creator Son must pay for the full and supreme sovereignty of his self-made universe of things and beings.

120:0.2 (1323.2) Before the events I am about to delineate, Michael of Nebadon had bestowed himself six times after the similitude of six differing orders of his diverse creation of intelligent beings. Then he prepared to descend upon Urantia in the likeness of mortal flesh, the lowest order of his intelligent will creatures, and, as such a human of the material realm, to execute the final act in the drama of the acquirement of universe sovereignty in accordance with the mandates of the divine Paradise Rulers of the universe of universes.

120:0.3 (1323.3) In the course of each of these preceding bestowals Michael not only acquired the finite experience of one group of his created beings, but he also acquired an essential experience in Paradise co-operation which would, in and of itself, further contribute to constituting him the sovereign of his self-made universe. At any moment throughout all past local universe time, Michael could have asserted personal sovereignty as a Creator Son and as a Creator Son could have ruled his universe after the manner of his own choosing. In such an event, Immanuel and the associated Paradise Sons would have taken leave of the universe. But Michael did not wish to rule Nebadon merely in his own isolated right, as a Creator Son. He desired to ascend through actual experience in co-operative subordination to the Paradise Trinity to that high place in universe status where he would become qualified to rule his universe and administer its affairs with that