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Untold Story of Jesus: A Modern Biography from The Urantia Book [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 400 pages, kõrgus x laius: 239x184 mm, 35 renowned artists featuring 42 original paintings
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2024
  • Kirjastus: Urantia Foundation
  • ISBN-10: 0997404922
  • ISBN-13: 9780997404920
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 400 pages, kõrgus x laius: 239x184 mm, 35 renowned artists featuring 42 original paintings
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2024
  • Kirjastus: Urantia Foundation
  • ISBN-10: 0997404922
  • ISBN-13: 9780997404920

Jesus comes to life in this fascinating modern biography excerpted from The Urantia Book

Many of these historical stories are familiar to readers of the New Testament but dozens are new, including the missing years not found in the Bible. Here you discover Jesus presented as never before, both as divine Son and human hero whose matchless life inspires, comforts, and transforms you.

It is beautifully written in modern, page-turning prose and complemented with 106 paintings from 35 renowned artists, including 42 originally commissioned works you will see for the first time. The paintings run the gamut of fine art celebrating the life of Christ, both classic and modern. These artists poured their souls into these portraits of higher spiritual reality. Our deep appreciation and humble gratitude go out to each one of them.

These paintings illustrate Jesus’ life journey from his humble birth and childhood to adolescence and manhood; from private to public ministry and on to his death, resurrection, and ascension. The artwork celebrates his diverse life as son, father-brother, carpenter, boat designer and builder, tutor, translator, caravan conductor, teacher, healer, minister, and friend. No one knows what Jesus looked like, but these artists painted their soulful interpretations to spark our imagination of these scenes from the Master’s life. Our intent is to give you a visual communion with Jesus that complements the enthralling narrative.

This impeccably designed book provides relevant and empowering spiritual insights, helping you navigate the challenging yet promising conditions of the 21st century. We live in an exciting era of unprecedented improvements in our material lives brought about by scientific, industrial, and social achievements. Yet despite all this progress, many souls feel lonely and displaced. We need God and have an innate thirst for spiritual answers because of that “still, small voice” that lives within us. Finding God by living the personal religion of Jesus satisfies that thirst.

The search for the genuine Jesus continues to intrigue humanity. Since the Bible only records an estimated 50 days of his life, it follows that there is more to his story. You will find it here in this detailed history of the Master’s entire life, including the public ministry recorded in the Gospels. It provides a coherent and seamless biography of this magnificent personality who continues to shape spiritual progress in our world.

The story of Jesus is one of the most enthralling chapters in human history. The closing passage of the Apostle John’s gospel speaks to a life larger than even the world itself. How fitting that the last words of his gospel should be the first words of this book: “But there are also many things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.” In John’s day the Word was made flesh. In these days the Word is made book.

The Untold Story of Jesus reveals the living Christ to members of the church that bears his name, as well as to worshipers of all world religions. It is sure to become a favorite volume for all who seek God.

Jesus comes to life in this fascinating modern biography excerpted from The Urantia Book. Many of these historical stories are familiar to readers of the New Testament but dozens are new, including the missing years not found in the Bible. Here you discover Jesus presented as never before, both as divine Son and human hero whose matchless life inspires, comforts, and transforms you.

It is beautifully written in modern, page-turning prose and complemented with 106 paintings from 35 renowned artists, including 42 originally commissioned works you will see for the first time. The paintings run the gamut of fine art celebrating the life of Christ, both classic and modern. These artists poured their souls into these portraits of higher spiritual reality. Our deep appreciation and humble gratitude go out to each one of them.

These paintings illustrate Jesus’ life journey from his humble birth and childhood to adolescence and manhood; from private to public ministry and on to his death, resurrection, and ascension. The artwork celebrates his diverse life as son, father-brother, carpenter, boat designer and builder, tutor, translator, caravan conductor, teacher, healer, minister, and friend. No one knows what Jesus looked like, but these artists painted their soulful interpretations to spark our imagination of these scenes from the Master’s life. Our intent is to give you a visual communion with Jesus that complements the enthralling narrative.

This impeccably designed book provides relevant and empowering spiritual insights, helping you navigate the challenging yet promising conditions of the 21st century. We live in an exciting era of unprecedented improvements in our material lives brought about by scientific, industrial, and social achievements. Yet despite all this progress, many souls feel lonely and displaced. We need God and have an innate thirst for spiritual answers because of that “still, small voice” that lives within us. Finding God by living the personal religion of Jesus satisfies that thirst.

The search for the genuine Jesus continues to intrigue humanity. Since the Bible only records an estimated 50 days of his life, it follows that there is more to his story. You will find it here in this detailed history of the Master’s entire life, including the public ministry recorded in the Gospels. It provides a coherent and seamless biography of this magnificent personality who continues to shape spiritual progress in our world.

The story of Jesus is one of the most enthralling chapters in human history. The closing passage of the Apostle John’s gospel speaks to a life larger than even the world itself. How fitting that the last words of his gospel should be the first words of this book: “But there are also many things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.” In John’s day the Word was made flesh. In these days the Word is made book.

The Untold Story of Jesus reveals the living Christ to members of the church that bears his name, as well as to worshipers of all world religions. It is sure to become a favorite volume for all who seek God.


[ CHAPTER I] THE EARLY YEARS



Gabriel's announcement to Mary

Joseph's dream

Joseph and Mary

The trip to Bethlehem for the census

The birth of Jesus

The presentation in the temple

The escape from Herod

Sojourn in Alexandria

Back in Nazareth

Life in Nazareth, ages four to five

Life in Nazareth, ages six to seven

School days

The invitation to Jerusalem

Trouble at school

Sabbath walks with Joseph

The trip with Joseph to Scythopolis

The twelfth year

The trip to Jerusalem

Young Jesus teaching in the temple

Mary and Joseph find Jesus



[ CHAPTER II] THE MISSING YEARS: FAMILY LIFE



The death of Joseph

The son of man

The financial struggle

Head of household

Jesus' eight siblings

Rebecca's undying love

Jesus and romantic love

The visit with Lazarus, Martha, and Mary

James installed as head of the family

Summary of ages 21 to 25

Jesus leaves his family

The wealthy travelers from India



[ CHAPTER III] THE MISSING YEARS: TRAVEL AND MINISTRY



Embarking from Caesarea

The lighthouse at Alexandria

The Alexandrian library

The young man who was afraid

The sojourn at Rome

The thoughtless pagan

The return from Rome

The two courtesans

Personal work in Corinth

Ministry to hungry souls

The conclusion of the tour

The three friends part



[ CHAPTER IV] THE MISSING YEARS: THE TRANSITION



Managing a caravan to the Caspian Sea

The Urmia lectures

The year of solitary wanderings

The great temptation

The war in heaven

The time of waiting

The baptism in the Jordan

John the Baptist

The rugged and fiery prophet



[ CHAPTER V] "MY HOUR HAS COME"



Forty days in the Perean wilderness

The six great decisions

Choosing the first six apostles

The wedding at Cana

The Master and the miraculous

Introducing the kingdom of heaven

Choosing the final six apostles

Fishers of men

First work of the twelve

Five months of testing

The twelve apostles

Organization of the apostles

The ordination of the twelve

The sermon on the mount and the beatitudes



[ CHAPTER VI] BEGINNING THE PUBLIC WORK



Leaving galilee

The Passover at Jerusalem

Nicodemus and the Sanhedrin

Nalda, the woman at Jacob's well

What prayer meant to Jesus

The Lord's prayer

Conference with John's apostles



[ CHAPTER VII] THE YEAR OF SIGNS AND WONDERS



The healing at sundown

The leper at Iron

At the pool of Bethesda

The penitent woman

The six Jerusalem spies

The kingdom's first hospital

The dependable David Zebedee

The man with the withered hand

Healing the paralytic

The women's evangelistic corps

How Jesus emancipated women

The ten women evangelists

The Nazareth rejection

Jairus and his daughter

Feeding the five thousand

The king-making episode



[ CHAPTER VIII] THE SIFTING OF THE KINGDOM



The epochal sermon

Last days at Capernaum

The hasty flight

Teaching at Tyre

Peter's confession

Son of man, Son of God

The transfiguration

Meaning of the transfiguration

The epileptic boy

Peter's protest



[ CHAPTER IX] "BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM"



Public announcement of divinity

The woman taken in adultery

"I am the light of the world"

The truth will set you free

The seventy evangelists

The rich young man

The good Samaritan

An open challenge to the Sanhedrin

The good shepherd

The ten lepers

The sermon at Gerasa

The message from Bethany

The talk about angels

The resurrection of Lazarus

What became of Lazarus

Meeting of the Sanhedrin

The prodigal son

"Make haste Zaccheus"

"As Jesus passed by"



[ CHAPTER X] THE FINAL DAYS



Judas turns traitor

Your king comes as the lowly one

Cleansing the temple

Purging the den of robbers

Challenging the Master's authority

Tuesday morning in the temple

The inquiring Greeks

The last temple discourse

Status of individual Jews

Foretelling the end of Jerusalem

One day alone with God

The last supper

Love one another even as I have loved you

The last group prayer

Jam the way, the truth, and the life

Alone in gethsemane



[ CHAPTER XI] "IT IS FINISHED!"



The betrayal and arrest of Jesus

Before the Sanhedrin court

Simon Peter's tears of agony

The trial before Pilate

Before Herod and the return to Pilate

The crucifixion

The end of Judas Iscariot

Meaning of the death on the cross



[ CHAPTER XII] "I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE"



The resurrection

The walk with two brothers

Appearances to the apostles

Appearance by the lake

Visiting with the apostles

Resurrection appearances

Chart of the nineteen appearances

The Master's ascension

Bestowal of the spirit of truth

The significance of Pentecost


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Conclusion

Timeline of the life of Jesus

Bible and Urantia Book references

Glossary of Urantia Book terms

Index