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BAPTISM AND THE FORTY DAYS
POGLAVLJE 136 : KRŠTENJE I ČETRDESET DANA
1955 136:0.1 JESUS began his public work at the height of the popular interest in John’s preaching and at a time when the Jewish people of Palestine were eagerly looking for the appearance of the Messiah. There was a great contrast between John and Jesus. John was an eager and earnest worker, but Jesus was a calm and happy laborer; only a few times in his entire life was he ever in a hurry. Jesus was a comforting consolation to the world and somewhat of an example; John was hardly a comfort or an example. He preached the kingdom of heaven but hardly entered into the happiness thereof. Though Jesus spoke of John as the greatest of the prophets of the old order, he also said that the least of those who saw the great light of the new way and entered thereby into the kingdom of heaven was indeed greater than John.
2014 136:0.1 Isus je svoj javni rad započeo na vrhuncu zanimanja javnosti za Ivanovo propovijedanje, te u vrijeme kad su Židovi u Palestini gorljivo iščekivali dolazak Mesije
[1]. Postojala je velika razlika između Ivana i Isusa. Ivan je bio revan i ozbiljan radnik, dok je Isus bio miran i sretan radnik; samo je nekoliko puta u cijelom svom životu Isus bio u žurbi. Isus je bio utjeha svijetu i svojevrstan primjer, dok se za Ivana to teško može reći. Ivan je propovijedao nebesko kraljevstvo, ali nije iskusio njegovo veselje. Iako je Isus o Ivanu govorio kao o najvećem od svih proroka staroga svijeta, također je rekao da je i najmanji od onih koji su ugledali svijetlo novoga puta i kroz njega ušli u nebesko kraljevstvo uistinu veći od Ivana[2].
1955 136:0.2 When John preached the coming kingdom, the burden of his message was: Repent! flee from the wrath to come. When Jesus began to preach, there remained the exhortation to repentance, but such a message was always followed by the gospel, the good tidings of the joy and liberty of the new kingdom.
2014 136:0.2 Kada bi Ivan naviještao kraljevstvo koje dolazi, glavna misao njegove poruke bila je: Pokajte se! pobjegnite od gnjeva koje dolazi. I Isus je, kad je propovijedao, opominjao ljude da se pokaju, ali nakon takve poruke uvijek je dolazilo evanđelje, dobre vijesti radosti i slobode novoga kraljevstva.[3]
¶ 1. KONCEPCIJE O OČEKIVANOM MESIJI
1. CONCEPTS OF THE EXPECTED MESSIAH
1. KONCEPCIJE O OČEKIVANOM MESIJI
1955 136:1.1 The Jews entertained many ideas about the expected deliverer, and each of these different schools of Messianic teaching was able to point to statements in the Hebrew scriptures as proof of their contentions. In a general way, the Jews regarded their national history as beginning with Abraham and culminating in the Messiah and the new age of the kingdom of God. In earlier times they had envisaged this deliverer as “the servant of the Lord,” then as “the Son of Man,” while latterly some even went so far as to refer to the Messiah as the “Son of God.” But no matter whether he was called the “seed of Abraham” or “the son of David,” all were agreed that he was to be the Messiah, the “anointed one.” Thus did the concept evolve from the “servant of the Lord” to the “son of David,” “Son of Man,” and “Son of God.”
2014 136:1.1 Židovi su različito zamišljali očekivanog izbavitelja, i svaka od tih različitih škola mesijanskoga učenja bila je u stanju izdvojiti izjave u hebrejskim spisima koje su dokazivale njihove tvrdnje. Uopćeno govoreći, Židovi su smatrali da je njihova nacionalna povijest započela s Abrahamom, i da će kulminirati s Mesijom i novim dobom Božjega kraljevstva. U ranijim su vremenima ovog izbavitelja opisivali kao "slugu Božjega", zatim kao "Sina Čovječjeg", dok su kasnije išli tako daleko da su ga nazivali "Sinom Božjim." Ali bez obzira na to jesu li ga zvali " Abrahamovim sjemenom " ili "Davidovim sinom", svi su se slagali da će on biti Mesija, "pomazanik". Tako se koncepcija Mesije razvijala od "sluge Božjeg" do "Davidovog sina", "Sina Čovječjeg" i "Sina Božjeg"[4].
1955 136:1.2 In the days of John and Jesus the more learned Jews had developed an idea of the coming Messiah as the perfected and representative Israelite, combining in himself as the “servant of the Lord” the threefold office of prophet, priest, and king.
2014 136:1.2 U doba Ivana i Isusa učeniji Židovi Mesiju su zamišljali kao usavršenog i tipičnog Izraelca, koji je u sebi kao "sluga Božji" spajao trostruku uloguproroka, svećenika i kralja.
1955 136:1.3 The Jews devoutly believed that, as Moses had delivered their fathers from Egyptian bondage by miraculous wonders, so would the coming Messiah deliver the Jewish people from Roman domination by even greater miracles of power and marvels of racial triumph. The rabbis had gathered together almost five hundred passages from the Scriptures which, notwithstanding their apparent contradictions, they averred were prophetic of the coming Messiah. And amidst all these details of time, technique, and function, they almost completely lost sight of the personality of the promised Messiah. They were looking for a restoration of Jewish national glory—Israel’s temporal exaltation—rather than for the salvation of the world. It therefore becomes evident that Jesus of Nazareth could never satisfy this materialistic Messianic concept of the Jewish mind. Many of their reputed Messianic predictions, had they but viewed these prophetic utterances in a different light, would have very naturally prepared their minds for a recognition of Jesus as the terminator of one age and the inaugurator of a new and better dispensation of mercy and salvation for all nations.
2014 136:1.3 Židovi su pobožno vjerovali da će, kao što je Mojsije izbavio njihove oce iz egipatskog ropstva čineći zapanjujuća čuda, isto tako i Mesija izbaviti židovski narod od Rimske vladavine kroz još veća čuda, s velikom moći i jačom nacionalnom pobjedom. Rabini su sakupili skoro pet stotina odlomaka iz Pisama za koje su, unatoč njihovim očitim protuslovljima, pouzdano tvrdili da prorokuju dolazak Mesije. A usred svih tih detalja o vremenu, načinu i djelovanju, skoro su u potpunosti izgubili iz vida osobnost obećanoga Mesije. Oni su očekivali obnovu slave židovskoga naroda - svjetovno uzvišenje Izraela - a ne spasenje svijeta. Kad imamo sve ovo na umu postaje jasno da Isus iz Nazareta nikako nije mogao zadovoljiti ovakvo materijalističko poimanje Mesije kakvo su Židovi imali. Da su Židovi iz drugačijeg kuta gledanja promatrali mnoga od takozvanih mesijanskih proročanstava, ta bi proročanstva sasvim prirodno pripremila njihove umove na spoznaju da će se s Isusom jedno doba okončati, te da će započeti novo i bolje darivanje milosti i spasenja za sve narode.
1955 136:1.4 The Jews had been brought up to believe in the doctrine of the Shekinah. But this reputed symbol of the Divine Presence was not to be seen in the temple. They believed that the coming of the Messiah would effect its restoration. They held confusing ideas about racial sin and the supposed evil nature of man. Some taught that Adam’s sin had cursed the human race, and that the Messiah would remove this curse and restore man to divine favor. Others taught that God, in creating man, had put into his being both good and evil natures; that when he observed the outworking of this arrangement, he was greatly disappointed, and that “He repented that he had thus made man.” And those who taught this believed that the Messiah was to come in order to redeem man from this inherent evil nature.
2014 136:1.4 Židove su odgajali da vjeruju u doktrinu koja se zove Šekina. No, ovaj navodni simbol Božanske Prisutnosti nije se mogao vidjeti u hramu. Židovi su vjerovali da će se s dolaskom Mesije i taj simbol vratiti u hram. Pojmovi o nacionalnom grijehu i pretpostavljenoj zloj naravi čovjeka bili su poprilično zbrkani u njihovim glavama. Neki su naučavali da je Adamov grijeh prokleo ljudsku rasu, te da će Mesija ukloniti to prokletstvo i vratiti čovjeka u Božju milost. Drugi su naučavali da je Bog, stvarajući čovjeka, u njega usadio i dobru i zlu narav, te da je, kad je vidio razvoj tog plana, bio toliko razočaran da se "pokajao što je čovjeka takvim napravio[5]." Oni koji su ovo naučavali vjerovali su da će Mesija doći kako bi otkupio čovjeka od njegove prirođene zle prirode.
1955 136:1.5 The majority of the Jews believed that they continued to languish under Roman rule because of their national sins and because of the halfheartedness of the gentile proselytes. The Jewish nation had not wholeheartedly repented; therefore did the Messiah delay his coming. There was much talk about repentance; wherefore the mighty and immediate appeal of John’s preaching, “Repent and be baptized, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” And the kingdom of heaven could mean only one thing to any devout Jew: The coming of the Messiah.
2014 136:1.5 Većina je Židova vjerovala razlog za njihov teški položaj pod Rimljanima leži u njihovim nacionalnim grijesima te u malodušnosti i mlitavosti poganih obraćenika. Židovski se narod nije iskreno pokajao i zato je Mesija odgađao svoj dolazak. Mnogo se govorilo o pokajanju, i zato je Ivanovo propovijedanje: "Pokajte se i krstite se, jer jekraljevstvo nebesko blizu," bilo tako jako privlačno[6]. A kraljevstvo nebesko je za svakog pobožnog Židova moglo značiti samo jedno: dolazak Mesije.
1955 136:1.6 There was one feature of the bestowal of Michael which was utterly foreign to the Jewish conception of the Messiah, and that was the union of the two natures, the human and the divine. The Jews had variously conceived of the Messiah as perfected human, superhuman, and even as divine, but they never entertained the concept of the union of the human and the divine. And this was the great stumbling block of Jesus’ early disciples. They grasped the human concept of the Messiah as the son of David, as presented by the earlier prophets; as the Son of Man, the superhuman idea of Daniel and some of the later prophets; and even as the Son of God, as depicted by the author of the Book of Enoch and by certain of his contemporaries; but never had they for a single moment entertained the true concept of the union in one earth personality of the two natures, the human and the divine. The incarnation of the Creator in the form of the creature had not been revealed beforehand. It was revealed only in Jesus; the world knew nothing of such things until the Creator Son was made flesh and dwelt among the mortals of the realm.
2014 136:1.6 Jedna je značajka Mihaelovog darivanja bila u potpunosti strana Židovskoj koncepciji Mesije, a to je sjedinjenje dviju naravi, ljudske i božanske.Židovi su Mesiju zamišljali na razne načine, i kao usavršenog čovjeka, i kao nadčovjeka, pa čak i kao božanskoga, ali nikad nisu o njemu razmišljali kao o sjedinjenju ljudskoga i božanskoga. Upravo je ovo bio veliki kamen spoticanja za Isusove rane učenike. Oni su razumjeli ljudsku koncepciju Mesije kao Davidovog sina, kako su ga predstavljali raniji proroci; shvaćali su ga i kao Sina Čovječjeg, što je bila natčovječna ideja koju su predstavili Danijel i neki kasniji proroci; shvatili su ga čak i kao Sina Božjega, kako ga je opisao pisac Knjige Enohove i neki od njihovih suvremenika; ali nikad nisu ni na trenutak pomislili na mogućnost sjedinjenja dviju priroda, ljudske i božanske, u jednoj zemaljskoj osobnosti[7][8]. Utjelovljenje Stvoritelja u obliku stvorenja nikad se prije nije dogodilo. Do tog je otkrivenja došlo tek u Isusu. Svijet za takve stvari nije znao sve dok se Sin Stvoritelj nije utjelovio i živio među smrtnicima[9].
¶ 2. ISUSOVO KRŠTENJE
2. THE BAPTISM OF JESUS
2. ISUSOVO KRŠTENJE
1955 136:2.1 Jesus was baptized at the very height of John’s preaching when Palestine was aflame with the expectancy of his message—“the kingdom of God is at hand”—when all Jewry was engaged in serious and solemn self-examination. The Jewish sense of racial solidarity was very profound. The Jews not only believed that the sins of the father might afflict his children, but they firmly believed that the sin of one individual might curse the nation. Accordingly, not all who submitted to John’s baptism regarded themselves as being guilty of the specific sins which John denounced. Many devout souls were baptized by John for the good of Israel. They feared lest some sin of ignorance on their part might delay the coming of the Messiah. They felt themselves to belong to a guilty and sin-cursed nation, and they presented themselves for baptism that they might by so doing manifest fruits of race penitence. It is therefore evident that Jesus in no sense received John’s baptism as a rite of repentance or for the remission of sins. In accepting baptism at the hands of John, Jesus was only following the example of many pious Israelites.
2014 136:2.1 Isus je bio kršten na samom vrhuncu Ivanovog propovijedanja, kad je Palestina izgarala u iščekivanju njegove poruke - "kraljevstvo je Božje blizu" - kada su svi Židovi bili prolazili kroz ozbiljno i važno samoispitivanje[10][11]. Židovi su posjedovali vrlo dubok osjećaj za nacionalnu solidarnost. Oni su ne samo vjerovali da se grijesi otaca mogu prenijeti na njihovu djecu, već su također i čvrsto vjerovali da grijeh jednog pojedinca može prokleti cijeli narod. Sukladno tome oni koji su se podvrgli Ivanovom krštenju nisu se nužno smatrali krivima za neki od grijeha koje je Ivan osuđivao. Mnoge pobožne duše krstile su se za dobrobit Izraela. Bojali su se da možda ne bi neki njihov grijeh za koji nisu bili niti svjesni sprječavao dolazak Mesije[12]. Smatrali su da pripadaju grešnom narodu, te su došli na krštenje kako bi tako mogli pokazati plodove pokajanja cijeloga naroda. Stoga je jasno da se Isus ni u kojem slučaju nije krstio kako bi se očistio od grijeha. PrimivšiIvanovo krštenje Isus je samo slijedio primjer mnogih pobožnih Židova.
1955 136:2.2 When Jesus of Nazareth went down into the Jordan to be baptized, he was a mortal of the realm who had attained the pinnacle of human evolutionary ascension in all matters related to the conquest of mind and to self-identification with the spirit. He stood in the Jordan that day a perfected mortal of the evolutionary worlds of time and space. Perfect synchrony and full communication had become established between the mortal mind of Jesus and the indwelling spirit Adjuster, the divine gift of his Father in Paradise. And just such an Adjuster indwells all normal beings living on Urantia since the ascension of Michael to the headship of his universe, except that Jesus’ Adjuster had been previously prepared for this special mission by similarly indwelling another superhuman incarnated in the likeness of mortal flesh, Machiventa Melchizedek.
2014 136:2.2 Kada je Isus iz Nazareta došao u Jordan kako bi se krstio, bio je smrtnik svemira koji je dostigao vrhunac ljudskog razvojnog uspona u svim stvarima koje se tiču osvajanja uma i poistovjećivanje sebe s duhom. Toga je dana u Jordanu stajao usavršeni smrtnik razvojnih svjetova vremena i prostora. Uspostavljena je savršena sinkronija i potpuna komunikacija između Isusovog smrtničkog uma i unutarnjeg duhovnog Ispravljača, božanskog dara njegovog Rajskog Oca. A upravo takav Ispravljač živi u svim normalnim stvorenjima koja su živjela na Urantiji otkako se Mihael uspeo na vodeći položaj svoga svemira; jedina je razlika ta što je Isusov Ispravljač bio pripremljen za ovaj posebni zadatak tako što je već prije na sličan način živio u jednom drugom nadčovjeku koji se utjelovio u ljudsko obličje, u MakiventiMelikizedeku.
1955 136:2.3 Ordinarily, when a mortal of the realm attains such high levels of personality perfection, there occur those preliminary phenomena of spiritual elevation which terminate in eventual fusion of the matured soul of the mortal with its associated divine Adjuster. And such a change was apparently due to take place in the personality experience of Jesus of Nazareth on that very day when he went down into the Jordan with his two brothers to be baptized by John. This ceremony was the final act of his purely human life on Urantia, and many superhuman observers expected to witness the fusion of the Adjuster with its indwelt mind, but they were all destined to suffer disappointment. Something new and even greater occurred. As John laid his hands upon Jesus to baptize him, the indwelling Adjuster took final leave of the perfected human soul of Joshua ben Joseph. And in a few moments this divine entity returned from Divinington as a Personalized Adjuster and chief of his kind throughout the entire local universe of Nebadon. Thus did Jesus observe his own former divine spirit descending on its return to him in personalized form. And he heard this same spirit of Paradise origin now speak, saying, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” And John, with Jesus’ two brothers, also heard these words. John’s disciples, standing by the water’s edge, did not hear these words, neither did they see the apparition of the Personalized Adjuster. Only the eyes of Jesus beheld the Personalized Adjuster.
2014 136:2.3 Uobičajeno je da se, kad smrtnik nekog svijeta dostigne tako visoki stupanj usavršenja svoje osobnosti, tada događaju one pripremne pojave duhovnog uzdignuća koje završavaju u stapanju takve zrele duše smrtnika s njegovim božanskim Ispravljačem. Takva se promjena izgleda trebala dogoditi u osobnom iskustvu Isusa iz Nazareta toga dana kad je sišao u Jordan s dvojicom svoje braće kako bi ga Ivan krstio. Ovaj je obred bio završni čin njegovog čisto ljudskog života na Urantiji, i mnogi nadljudski promatrači očekivali su da će vidjeti stapanje Ispravljača s umom u kojemu živi. No sve njih očekivalo je razočaranje. Dogodilo se nešto novo i veličanstvenije. Dok je Ivan polagao svoje ruke na Isusa da ga krsti, Ispravljač je napustio usavršenu ljudsku dušu Jošue sina Josipovog[13]. A za nekoliko se trenutaka ovo božansko biće vratilo s Diviningtona kao Personalizirani Ispravljač i predsjednik svoje vrste u cijelom lokalnom svemiru Nebadonu. Tako je Isus vidio svojeg negdašnjeg božanskoga duha kako pri svom povratku silazi na njega u svom personaliziranom obliku[14]. Čuo je ovog istog Rajskoga duha kako govori: "Ovo je moj ljubljeni Sin koga sam odabrao." I Ivan je, zajedno s Isusovom braćom, čuo ove riječi. Ivanovi učenici, koji su stajali na rubu vode, nisu čuli ove riječi, niti su vidjeli pojavu Personaliziranog Ispravljača. Samo je Isus vidio Personaliziranog Ispravljača.
1955 136:2.4 When the returned and now exalted Personalized Adjuster had thus spoken, all was silence. And while the four of them tarried in the water, Jesus, looking up to the near-by Adjuster, prayed: “My Father who reigns in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come! Your will be done on earth, even as it is in heaven.” When he had prayed, the “heavens were opened,” and the Son of Man saw the vision, presented by the now Personalized Adjuster, of himself as a Son of God as he was before he came to earth in the likeness of mortal flesh, and as he would be when the incarnated life should be finished. This heavenly vision was seen only by Jesus.
2014 136:2.4 Kada je sada uzvišeni Personalizirani Ispravljač tako rekao, nastupila je tišina. I dok su njih četvorica bila u vodi, Isus se, pogledavši Ispravljača pokraj sebe, molio: "Moj Oče koji vladaš na nebesima, sveti se ime tvoje. Dođi kraljevstvo tvoje! Budi volja tvoja kako na nebu tako i na zemlji." Dok se molio "otvorilo se nebo" i Sinu Čovječjem je Personalizirani Ispravljač pokazao viziju njega kao Sina Božjega kakav je bio prije nego što je došao na zemlju u obličju smrtnika, i kakav će biti kada se život utjelovljenja završi[15]. Ovu je nebesku viziju vidio samo Isus[16].
1955 136:2.5 It was the voice of the Personalized Adjuster that John and Jesus heard, speaking in behalf of the Universal Father, for the Adjuster is of, and as, the Paradise Father. Throughout the remainder of Jesus’ earth life this Personalized Adjuster was associated with him in all his labors; Jesus was in constant communion with this exalted Adjuster.
2014 136:2.5 Ivan i Isus čuli su glas Personaliziranog Ispravljača, koji je govorio u ime Oca Svih, jer Ispravljač dolazi od Rajskoga Oca i on je kao Bog[17]. Od tog trenutka pa do kraja Isusovog zemaljskog života ovaj je Personalizirani Ispravljač djelovao zajedno s njim u svim njegovim poduhvatima. Isus je bio u neprekinutoj vezi s ovim uzvišenim Ispravljačem.
1955 136:2.6 When Jesus was baptized, he repented of no misdeeds; he made no confession of sin. His was the baptism of consecration to the performance of the will of the heavenly Father. At his baptism he heard the unmistakable call of his Father, the final summons to be about his Father’s business, and he went away into private seclusion for forty days to think over these manifold problems. In thus retiring for a season from active personality contact with his earthly associates, Jesus, as he was and on Urantia, was following the very procedure that obtains on the morontia worlds whenever an ascending mortal fuses with the inner presence of the Universal Father.
2014 136:2.6 Kad se Isus krstio nije se pokajao niti za jedno loše djelo; nije priznao nikakav grijeh. Njegovo krštenje sastojalo se od posvećenja vršenju volje nebeskoga Oca. Tijekom svojega krštenja Isus je čuo nedvojben zov svojega Oca, konačni poziv da krene za poslom svojega Oca, te je pošao u osamu na četrdeset dana kako bi razmislio o brojnim problemima. Povukavši se neko vrijeme iz aktivnog kontakta sa svojim zemaljskim suradnicima Isus je, takav kakav je bio i na Urantiji, slijedio točno onaj postupak koji postoji na svjetovima morontije kad god se uzlazeći smrtnik spoji s unutrašnjom prisutnošću Oca Svih.
1955 136:2.7 This day of baptism ended the purely human life of Jesus. The divine Son has found his Father, the Universal Father has found his incarnated Son, and they speak the one to the other.
2014 136:2.7 S danom krštenja završio se čisto ljudski život Isusa iz Nazareta. Božanski Sin pronašao je svojega Oca, Otac Svih pronašao je svojeg utjelovljenoga Sina, i oni su razgovarali jedan s drugim.
1955 136:2.8 (Jesus was almost thirty-one and one-half years old when he was baptized. While Luke says that Jesus was baptized in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, which would be A.D. 29 since Augustus died in A.D. 14, it should be recalled that Tiberius was coemperor with Augustus for two and one-half years before the death of Augustus, having had coins struck in his honor in October, A.D. 11. The fifteenth year of his actual rule was, therefore, this very year of A.D. 26, that of Jesus’ baptism. And this was also the year that Pontius Pilate began his rule as governor of Judea.)
2014 136:2.8 (Isus je imao skoro trideset i jednu i pol godinu kad se krstio. Luka govori da je Isus kršten u petnaestoj godini vladavine cara Tiberija, što bi bila 29. god. p.K., jer je August umro 14. god. p.K. No, treba pripomenuti da je Tiberije vladao zajedno s Augustom dvije i pol godine prije Augustove smrti, te su prvi novci iskovani u njegovu čast u listopadugod.11. p.K. Petnaesta godine njegove stvarne vladavine bila je, dakle, 26. god. p.K, koja je igodina Isusovog krštenja. Ove je godine započelo namjesništvo Poncija Pilata u Judeji.)[18]
¶ 3. ČETRDESET DANA
3. THE FORTY DAYS
3. ČETRDESET DANA
1955 136:3.1 Jesus had endured the great temptation of his mortal bestowal before his baptism when he had been wet with the dews of Mount Hermon for six weeks. There on Mount Hermon, as an unaided mortal of the realm, he had met and defeated the Urantia pretender, Caligastia, the prince of this world. That eventful day, on the universe records, Jesus of Nazareth had become the Planetary Prince of Urantia. And this Prince of Urantia, so soon to be proclaimed supreme Sovereign of Nebadon, now went into forty days of retirement to formulate the plans and determine upon the technique of proclaiming the new kingdom of God in the hearts of men.
2014 136:3.1 Veliko iskušenje svojega smrtničkoga darivanja Isus je proživio prije svojega krštenja, kad je šest tjedana proveo na planini Hermon. Na Hermonu, kao običan smrtnik svijeta bez ičije pomoći, Isus se susreo s pretendentom Urantije, Kaligastijom, knezom ovoga svijeta, i pobijedio ga,. Tog je znamenitoga dana u kozmičkim zapisima Isus iz Nazareta postao Planetarni Knez Urantije. I ovaj Knez Urantije, koji će uskoro biti proglašen Vrhovnim Vladarom Nebadona, sada je otišao u osamu na četrdeset dana kako bi stvorio planove i odredio način na koji će navještavati novo Božje kraljevstvo u srcima ljudi[19].
1955 136:3.2 After his baptism he entered upon the forty days of adjusting himself to the changed relationships of the world and the universe occasioned by the personalization of his Adjuster. During this isolation in the Perean hills he determined upon the policy to be pursued and the methods to be employed in the new and changed phase of earth life which he was about to inaugurate.
2014 136:3.2 Nakon krštenja Isus se tijekom četrdeset dana prilagođavao promijenjenim odnosima svijeta i svemira koji su se dogodili zbog personalizacije njegovog Ispravljača. Tijekom ove osame u Perejskim brdima odlučio je koje će smjernice slijediti i koje će metode koristiti u novoj i promijenjenoj fazi zemaljskoga života koji će uskoro započeti.
1955 136:3.3 Jesus did not go into retirement for the purpose of fasting and for the affliction of his soul. He was not an ascetic, and he came forever to destroy all such notions regarding the approach to God. His reasons for seeking this retirement were entirely different from those which had actuated Moses and Elijah, and even John the Baptist. Jesus was then wholly self-conscious concerning his relation to the universe of his making and also to the universe of universes, supervised by the Paradise Father, his Father in heaven. He now fully recalled the bestowal charge and its instructions administered by his elder brother, Immanuel, ere he entered upon his Urantia incarnation. He now clearly and fully comprehended all these far-flung relationships, and he desired to be away for a season of quiet meditation so that he could think out the plans and decide upon the procedures for the prosecution of his public labors in behalf of this world and for all other worlds in his local universe.
2014 136:3.3 Isus nije pošao u osamu kako bi postio ili zbog bola u duši. On nije bio asket, već je došao zauvijek uništiti sve takve načine kojima se ljudi služe ne bi li se približili Bogu. Razlozi za njegovu osamu bili su potpuno drugačiji od onih koji su pokretali Mojsija, Iliju, pa čak i Ivana Krstitelja. Isus je bio u potpunosti svjestan svojega odnosa prema svemiru koji je stvorio, kao i prema svemiru nad svemirima koje nadgleda Rajski Otac, njegov nebeski Otac. Sada se u potpunosti sjetio svojih dužnosti u ovome darivanju kao i uputa koje mu je dao njegov stariji brat, Emanuel, prije nego što je započeo utjelovljenje na Urantiji. Sada je jasno i potpuno shvaćao sve te razprostranjene odnose, te je želio jedno vrijeme provesti daleko od svih u tihoj meditaciji kako bi mogao smisliti planove i odlučiti se za postupke kojima će provesti svoje javno djelovanje za ovaj svijet ali i za sve druge svjetove njegovoga lokalnoga svemira.
1955 136:3.4 While wandering about in the hills, seeking a suitable shelter, Jesus encountered his universe chief executive, Gabriel, the Bright and Morning Star of Nebadon. Gabriel now re-established personal communication with the Creator Son of the universe; they met directly for the first time since Michael took leave of his associates on Salvington when he went to Edentia preparatory to entering upon the Urantia bestowal. Gabriel, by direction of Immanuel and on authority of the Uversa Ancients of Days, now laid before Jesus information indicating that his bestowal experience on Urantia was practically finished so far as concerned the earning of the perfected sovereignty of his universe and the termination of the Lucifer rebellion. The former was achieved on the day of his baptism when the personalization of his Adjuster demonstrated the perfection and completion of his bestowal in the likeness of mortal flesh, and the latter was a fact of history on that day when he came down from Mount Hermon to join the waiting lad, Tiglath. Jesus was now informed, upon the highest authority of the local universe and the superuniverse, that his bestowal work was finished in so far as it affected his personal status in relation to sovereignty and rebellion. He had already had this assurance direct from Paradise in the baptismal vision and in the phenomenon of the personalization of his indwelling Thought Adjuster.
2014 136:3.4 Dok je lutao ovim brdima, tražeći prikladno sklonište, Isus je susreo svog vrhovnog izvrštelja,Gabrijela, Sjajnu i Jutarnju Zvijezdu Nebadona. Gabrijel je ovom prilikom ponovo uspostavio osobnu komunikaciju sa Sinom Stvoriteljem svemira; njih su se dvojica sada susreli po prvi puta otkako je Mihael napustio svoje suradnike na Salvingtonu i otišao u Edentiju da se pripremi za početak darivanja na Urantiji. Gabrijel je po Emanuelovoj uputi i u skladu s ovlasti koju su mu dali Starosti Dana Uverse ovom prilikom obavijestio Isusa da je iskustvo njegovog darivanja na Urantijizapravo završeno što se tiče onog aspekta darivanja koji se odnosi na stjecanje usavršene vrhovne vlasti njegovog svemira i okončanje Luciferove pobune. Vrhovnu je vlast Isus dobio na dan svojega krštenja kada je personalizacija njegovog Ispravljača pokazala usavršenje i dovršenje njegovog darivanja u obličju smrtnoga tijela, dok je okončanje Luciferove pobune bio već povijesni trenutak, a zbio se onoga dana kad je Isus sišao s planine Hermon da se pridruži dječaku koji ga je čekao u podnožju, Tiglathu. Isusa su obavijestili, u skladu s najvišom ovlasti lokalnog svemira i superkozmosa, da je njegov posao darivanja završen u pogledu njegovog osobnog položaja prema vrhovnoj vlasti i pobuni.On je ovo jamstvo već prije dobio izravno iz Raja u okvirima vizije koju je vidio prilikom krštenja te kroz fenomen personalizacije njegovog Misaonog Ispravljača.
1955 136:3.5 While he tarried on the mountain, talking with Gabriel, the Constellation Father of Edentia appeared to Jesus and Gabriel in person, saying: “The records are completed. The sovereignty of Michael number 611,121 over his universe of Nebadon rests in completion at the right hand of the Universal Father. I bring to you the bestowal release of Immanuel, your sponsor-brother for the Urantia incarnation. You are at liberty now or at any subsequent time, in the manner of your own choosing, to terminate your incarnation bestowal, ascend to the right hand of your Father, receive your sovereignty, and assume your well-earned unconditional rulership of all Nebadon. I also testify to the completion of the records of the superuniverse, by authorization of the Ancients of Days, having to do with the termination of all sin-rebellion in your universe and endowing you with full and unlimited authority to deal with any and all such possible upheavals in the future. Technically, your work on Urantia and in the flesh of the mortal creature is finished. Your course from now on is a matter of your own choosing.”
2014 136:3.5 Dok je boravio na brdima razgovarajući s Gabrijelom, Otac Zviježđa s Edentije osobno se pojavio pred Isusom i Gabrijelom i rekao: "Zapisi su završeni. Vrhovna vlast Mihaela broj 611 121 nad njegovim svemirom Nebadonom dovršena je i nalazi se u desnoj ruci Oca Svih. Donosim ti odriješenje od darivanja koje ti šalje Emanuel, tvoj pokrovitelj-brat tijekom utjelovljenja na Urantiji. Slobodan si da sada ili u bilo kojem kasnijem trenutku okončaš svoje utjelovljenje i darivanje na koji god način odabereš, te da se uspneš do desne strane svojega Oca, primiš vrhovnu vlast i preuzmeš svoje zasluženo bezuvjetno vladanje nad cijelim Nebadonom. Također svjedočim da su završeni i zapisi superkozmosa, po ovlasti Starosti Dana, koji se tiču okončanja svake grešne pobune u tvojem svemiru te koji ti pružaju potpunu i neograničenu vlast da ubuduće razriješiš bilo kakav takav prevrat. Tehnički gledano, tvoj je posao na Urantiji i u tijelu smrtnoga stvorenja završen. Tvoj put će odsada ovisiti samo o tvom vlastitom izboru."
1955 136:3.6 When the Most High Father of Edentia had taken leave, Jesus held long converse with Gabriel regarding the welfare of the universe and, sending greetings to Immanuel, proffered his assurance that, in the work which he was about to undertake on Urantia, he would be ever mindful of the counsel he had received in connection with the prebestowal charge administered on Salvington.
2014 136:3.6 Kada je Svevišnji Otac Edentije otišao, Isus je dugo razgovarao s Gabrijelom o dobrobiti svemira i, poslavši pozdrave Emanuelu, zajamčio da će u radu koji će uskoro započeti na Urantiji uvijek paziti na savjete koje je dobio zajedno s uputama na Salvingtonu prije nego što je započeo darivanje.
1955 136:3.7 Throughout all of these forty days of isolation James and John the sons of Zebedee were engaged in searching for Jesus. Many times they were not far from his abiding place, but never did they find him.
2014 136:3.7 Jakov i Ivan, Zebedejevi sinovi, proveli su ovih četrdeset dana tražeći Isusa. Često su bili blizu mjesta na kojem se on nalazio, ali ga ipak nisu uspjeli pronaći.
¶ 4. PLANOVI ZA JAVNO DJELOVANJE
4. PLANS FOR PUBLIC WORK
4. PLANOVI ZA JAVNO DJELOVANJE
1955 136:4.1 Day by day, up in the hills, Jesus formulated the plans for the remainder of his Urantia bestowal. He first decided not to teach contemporaneously with John. He planned to remain in comparative retirement until the work of John achieved its purpose, or until John was suddenly stopped by imprisonment. Jesus well knew that John’s fearless and tactless preaching would presently arouse the fears and enmity of the civil rulers. In view of John’s precarious situation, Jesus began definitely to plan his program of public labors in behalf of his people and the world, in behalf of every inhabited world throughout his vast universe. Michael’s mortal bestowal was on Urantia but for all worlds of Nebadon.
2014 136:4.1 Dan za danom Isus je u brdima stvarao planove za preostali dio njegovog darivanja na Urantiji. Prva njegova odluka bila je da neće naučavati istodobno s Ivanom. Odlučio se ostati relativno povučen do trenutka kad Ivanovo učenje ili ostvari svoj cilj, ili dok Ivana zaustavi uhićenje. Isus je dobro znao da će Ivanovo neustrašivo i netaktično propovijedanje uskoro pobuditi strahove i neprijateljstvo civilnih vladara. Imajući u vidu Ivanov neizvjestan položaj, Isus je započeo planirati svoj program javnog djelovanja u korist svojeg naroda i svijeta, te u korist svakog naseljenog svijeta diljem svojeg prostranog svemira. Mihaelovo smrtno darivanje bilo je na Urantiji, ali za sve svjetove Nebadona.
1955 136:4.2 The first thing Jesus did, after thinking through the general plan of co-ordinating his program with John’s movement, was to review in his mind the instructions of Immanuel. Carefully he thought over the advice given him concerning his methods of labor, and that he was to leave no permanent writing on the planet. Never again did Jesus write on anything except sand. On his next visit to Nazareth, much to the sorrow of his brother Joseph, Jesus destroyed all of his writing that was preserved on the boards about the carpenter shop, and which hung upon the walls of the old home. And Jesus pondered well over Immanuel’s advice pertaining to his economic, social, and political attitude toward the world as he should find it.
2014 136:4.2 Prva stvar koju je Isus učinio, nakon osmišljavanja općeg plana usklađivanja njegovog programa s Ivanovim pokretom, bila je ponoviti u umu upute koje mu je dao Emanuel. Pažljivo je razmišljao o savjetima koje je dobio oko načina djelovanja, te da za sobom ne smije ostaviti nikakav trajni zapis na planetu. Nikad više Isus nije pisao ni na čemu osim na pijesku. Prilikom svojeg sljedećeg posjeta Nazaretu, na veliku žalost svojega brata Josipa, Isus je uništio sve svoje zapise koji su bili sačuvani na pločama po tesarskoj radioni ili koji su visili na zidovima stare kuće. A Isus je dosta razmišljao i o Emanuelovom savjetu koji se ticao ekonomskog, društvenog i političkog stava prema svijetu onakvom kakvom će ga zateći.
1955 136:4.3 Jesus did not fast during this forty days’ isolation. The longest period he went without food was his first two days in the hills when he was so engrossed with his thinking that he forgot all about eating. But on the third day he went in search of food. Neither was he tempted during this time by any evil spirits or rebel personalities of station on this world or from any other world.
2014 136:4.3 Isus nije postio tijekom ovih četrdeset dana osame[20]. Najduži period što je bio bez hrane bila su prva dva dana kad je bio toliko zaokupljen svojim razmišljanjima da je u potpunosti zaboravio jesti. Ali trećega je dana krenuo u potragu za hranom. Niti su ga u ovome periodu iskušavali bilo kakvi zliduhovi ili pobunjene ličnosti koje su se nalazile na ovom ili bilo kojem drugom svijetu[21].
1955 136:4.4 These forty days were the occasion of the final conference between the human and the divine minds, or rather the first real functioning of these two minds as now made one. The results of this momentous season of meditation demonstrated conclusively that the divine mind has triumphantly and spiritually dominated the human intellect. The mind of man has become the mind of God from this time on, and though the selfhood of the mind of man is ever present, always does this spiritualized human mind say, “Not my will but yours be done.”
2014 136:4.4 Ovih četrdeset dana bili su prilika za posljednji razgovor između ljudskih i božanskih umova, ili bolje rečeno, bilo je to prvo pravo djelovanje ovih dvaju umova koji su sada bili sjedinjeni. Rezultati ovog značajnog razdoblja meditacije uvjerljivo su pokazali da je božanski um pobjedonosno i duhovno upravljao ljudskim intelektom. Čovječji je um od ovoga trenutka postao Božjim umom, te iako je samosvojnost ovoga ljudskoga uma uvijek prisutna, uvijek taj produhovljeni ljudski um govori: "Neka ne bude moja volja, već tvoja[22]."
1955 136:4.5 The transactions of this eventful time were not the fantastic visions of a starved and weakened mind, neither were they the confused and puerile symbolisms which afterward gained record as the “temptations of Jesus in the wilderness.” Rather was this a season for thinking over the whole eventful and varied career of the Urantia bestowal and for the careful laying of those plans for further ministry which would best serve this world while also contributing something to the betterment of all other rebellion-isolated spheres. Jesus thought over the whole span of human life on Urantia, from the days of Andon and Fonta, down through Adam’s default, and on to the ministry of the Melchizedek of Salem.
2014 136:4.5 Događaji ovog značajnog razdoblja ne mogu se opisati kao fantastične vizije izgladnjelog i oslabljenog uma, niti kao zbrkani i djetinjasti simbolizmi kasnije zapisani kao "iskušenja Isusa u pustinji[23]." Bilo je to razdoblje razmišljanja o uzbudljivom i raznolikom tijeku darivanja na Urantiji, kao i pažljivog razrađivanja planova za daljnju službu kojom bi se na najbolji mogući način služilo ovome svijetu dok bi se istovremeno doprinijelo poboljšanju svih drugih svjetova koju su zbog pobune izolirani. Isus je razmišljao o cijelom životnom razdoblju ljudi na Urantiji, od dana Andona i Fonte, pa do Adamovog pada i službe Melkizedeka iz Salema.
1955 136:4.6 Gabriel had reminded Jesus that there were two ways in which he might manifest himself to the world in case he should choose to tarry on Urantia for a time. And it was made clear to Jesus that his choice in this matter would have nothing to do with either his universe sovereignty or the termination of the Lucifer rebellion. These two ways of world ministry were:
2014 136:4.6 Gabrijel je podsjetio Isusa da postoje dva načina na koji bi se Isus mogao očitovati svijetu u slučaju da odluči neko vrijeme ostati na Urantiji. I pojasnio mu je da ova njegova odluka ni na koji način ne može utjecati na njegovu vrhovnu vlast u svemiru ili na okončanje Luciferove pobune. Ova su dva načina služenja svijetu bila:
1955 136:4.7 1. His own way—the way that might seem most pleasant and profitable from the standpoint of the immediate needs of this world and the present edification of his own universe.
2014 136:4.7 1. Njegov vlastiti način - način koji se može činiti najugodniji i najkorisniji s gledišta neposrednih potreba ovoga svijeta i sadašnje izgradnje njegovog vlastitog svemira.
1955 136:4.8 2. The Father’s way—the exemplification of a farseeing ideal of creature life visualized by the high personalities of the Paradise administration of the universe of universes.
2014 136:4.8 2. Očev način - na primjeru pokazati dalekovidni ideal života stvorenja kakav predočavaju visoke osobe iz Rajske uprave svemira nad svemirima.
1955 136:4.9 It was thus made clear to Jesus that there were two ways in which he could order the remainder of his earth life. Each of these ways had something to be said in its favor as it might be regarded in the light of the immediate situation. The Son of Man clearly saw that his choice between these two modes of conduct would have nothing to do with his reception of universe sovereignty; that was a matter already settled and sealed on the records of the universe of universes and only awaited his demand in person. But it was indicated to Jesus that it would afford his Paradise brother, Immanuel, great satisfaction if he, Jesus, should see fit to finish up his earth career of incarnation as he had so nobly begun it, always subject to the Father’s will. On the third day of this isolation Jesus promised himself he would go back to the world to finish his earth career, and that in a situation involving any two ways he would always choose the Father’s will. And he lived out the remainder of his earth life always true to that resolve. Even to the bitter end he invariably subordinated his sovereign will to that of his heavenly Father.
2014 136:4.9 Tako je Isusu pojasnio da postoje dva načina na koji može urediti preostali dio svoga zemaljskoga života. Svaki od ove dvije strane imao je svoje prednosti kad bi ih se promatralo u svijetlu neposredne situacije. Sin Čovječji potpuno je shvaćao da njegov odabir između ova dva načinaponašanja neće imati nikakvoga utjecaja na primitak vrhovne vlasti svemira; ta je stvar već bila okončana i zapečaćena u zapisima svemira nad svemirima i samo ju je trebao osobno preuzeti. Ali Isusu je rečeno da bi njegov Rajski brat Emanuel bio iznimno zadovoljan kad bi on, Isus, odlučio završiti svoj zemaljski život utjelovljenja onako kako ga je tako plemenito i započeo, a to je značilo biti uvijek podložan Očevoj volji. Trećega dana svoje osame Isus je obećao sam sebi da će se vratiti svijetu kako bi završio svoj zemaljski život, i da će u situaciji u kojoj se mogu izabrati dva načina uvijek odabrati Očevu volju. I do kraja svog zemaljskoga života uvijek je poštivao ovu odluku. Čak do samog gorkog kraja redovito je podredio svoju vrhovnu volju volji svojega nebeskoga Oca.
1955 136:4.10 The forty days in the mountain wilderness were not a period of great temptation but rather the period of the Master’s great decisions. During these days of lone communion with himself and his Father’s immediate presence—the Personalized Adjuster (he no longer had a personal seraphic guardian)—he arrived, one by one, at the great decisions which were to control his policies and conduct for the remainder of his earth career. Subsequently the tradition of a great temptation became attached to this period of isolation through confusion with the fragmentary narratives of the Mount Hermon struggles, and further because it was the custom to have all great prophets and human leaders begin their public careers by undergoing these supposed seasons of fasting and prayer. It had always been Jesus’ practice, when facing any new or serious decisions, to withdraw for communion with his own spirit that he might seek to know the will of God.
2014 136:4.10 U tih četrdeset dana što ih je proveo u pustinji u brdima Isus nije doživio nikakva velika iskušenja[24]. Prije bi se moglo reći da je to bilo razdoblje velikih odluka. Za vrijeme tih dana samotnih razgovora sa sobom i s Očevom neposrednom prisutnošću - Personaliziranim Ispravljačem (Isus više nije imao serafima čuvara) - donio je, jednu po jednu, velike odluke koje će upravljati načinom na koji će provesti ostatak svojeg zemaljskog života. Kasnije su tradiciju velikog iskušenja dodali ovom razdoblju osame jer su je pobrkali s fragmentarnim opisima borbi na planini Hermon, a i zato što je bio običaj da svi veliki proroci i ljudski vođe započnu svoje javno djelovanje razdobljima posta i molitve. Isus bi se uvijek, kada se trebao suočiti s bilo kakvom novom ili ozbiljnom odlukom, povukao na razgovor sa svojim vlastitim duhom kako bi mogao spoznati koja je bila volja Božja za tu situaciju.
1955 136:4.11 In all this planning for the remainder of his earth life, Jesus was always torn in his human heart by two opposing courses of conduct:
2014 136:4.11 Planirajući preostali dio svojega zemaljskoga života Isusovo su srce razdirala dva suprotna načina djelovanja:
1955 136:4.12 1. He entertained a strong desire to win his people—and the whole world—to believe in him and to accept his new spiritual kingdom. And he well knew their ideas concerning the coming Messiah.
2014 136:4.12 1. Snažno je želio osvojiti svoj vlastiti narod - i cijeli svijet - kako bi u njega vjerovali i prihvatili njegovo novo duhovno kraljevstvo. A dobro je poznavao njihove ideje o Mesiji koji treba doći.
1955 136:4.13 2. To live and work as he knew his Father would approve, to conduct his work in behalf of other worlds in need, and to continue, in the establishment of the kingdom, to reveal the Father and show forth his divine character of love.
2014 136:4.13 2. Želio je živjeti i raditi onako kako je znao da bi njegov Otac odobravao, obavljati svoj posao za druge potrebite svjetove i nastaviti, u utemeljavanju kraljevstva, pokazivati Oca i njegov božanski karakter ljubavi.
1955 136:4.14 Throughout these eventful days Jesus lived in an ancient rock cavern, a shelter in the side of the hills near a village sometime called Beit Adis. He drank from the small spring which came from the side of the hill near this rock shelter.
2014 136:4.14 Tijekom ovih važnih dana Isus je živio u jednoj prastaroj špilji u stijenama, svojevrsnom skloništu na jednoj strani brda pokraj sela koje se nekad zvalo BeitAdis. Pio je iz potočića koji je izvirao pokraj ovoga skloništa.
¶ 5. PRVA VELIKA ODLUKA
5. THE FIRST GREAT DECISION
5. PRVA VELIKA ODLUKA
1955 136:5.1 On the third day after beginning this conference with himself and his Personalized Adjuster, Jesus was presented with the vision of the assembled celestial hosts of Nebadon sent by their commanders to wait upon the will of their beloved Sovereign. This mighty host embraced twelve legions of seraphim and proportionate numbers of every order of universe intelligence. And the first great decision of Jesus’ isolation had to do with whether or not he would make use of these mighty personalities in connection with the ensuing program of his public work on Urantia.
2014 136:5.1 Trećeg dana nakon što je započeo razgovore sa sobom i svojim Personaliziranim Ispravljačem, Isus je imao viziju okupljenog nebeskog mnoštva Nebadona koje su njihovi zapovjednici poslali kako bi posluživali svojega voljenoga Vladara. Ovo se moćno mnoštvo sastojalo od dvanest legija serafima i odgovarajućeg broja svakog reda svemirske inteligencije[25]. I prva velika odluka tijekom Isusove osame bila je vezana uz to hoće li koristiti ove moćne osobe u svojem javnom djelovanju koje će uskoro započeti na Urantiji.
1955 136:5.2 Jesus decided that he would not utilize a single personality of this vast assemblage unless it should become evident that this was his Father’s will. Notwithstanding this general decision, this vast host remained with him throughout the balance of his earth life, always in readiness to obey the least expression of their Sovereign’s will. Although Jesus did not constantly behold these attendant personalities with his human eyes, his associated Personalized Adjuster did constantly behold, and could communicate with, all of them.
2014 136:5.2 Isus je odlučio da neće upotrijebiti niti jednu osobu od ovog ogromnog mnoštva osim ukoliko ne bi bilo očito da bi takvo što bila volja njegovog Oca. Unatoč ovoj općenitoj odluci, ovo je mnoštvo ostalo kraj njega do kraja njegovog zemaljskog života, uvijek spremni da poslušaju i najmanju volju svojega Vrhovnog Vladara. Iako Isus nije uvijek mogao vidjeti ove pratioce svojim ljudskim očima, njegov pridruženi Personalizirani Ispravljač mogao ih je uvijek vidjeti, te je sa svakim od njih uvijek mogao razgovarati.
1955 136:5.3 Before coming down from the forty days’ retreat in the hills, Jesus assigned the immediate command of this attendant host of universe personalities to his recently Personalized Adjuster, and for more than four years of Urantia time did these selected personalities from every division of universe intelligences obediently and respectfully function under the wise guidance of this exalted and experienced Personalized Mystery Monitor. In assuming command of this mighty assembly, the Adjuster, being a onetime part and essence of the Paradise Father, assured Jesus that in no case would these superhuman agencies be permitted to serve, or manifest themselves in connection with, or in behalf of, his earth career unless it should develop that the Father willed such intervention. Thus by one great decision Jesus voluntarily deprived himself of all superhuman co-operation in all matters having to do with the remainder of his mortal career unless the Father might independently choose to participate in some certain act or episode of the Son’s earth labors.
2014 136:5.3 Perije nego što je sišao sa svog četrdesetodnevnog boravka u brdima, Isus je neposredno zapovjedništvo nad ovim mnoštvom kozmičkih osobnosti povjerio svojem nedavno personaliziranom Ispravljaču, i tijekom više od četiri godine kako se vrijeme računa na Urantiji ove su odabrane osobnosti iz svakog reda kozmičkih inteligencija poslušno i s poštovanjem radili pod mudrim vodstvom ovog uzvišenog i iskusnog Personaliziranog Tajanstvenog Nadzornika. Preuzevši zapovjedništvo nad ovim moćnim skupom, Ispravljač je, s obzirom da je svojedobrno bio dio i bit Rajskoga Oca, uvjeravao Isusa da niti u jednom slučaju neće dozvoliti ovim nadljudskim silama da služe, ili da se očituju u svezi sa, ili u korist njegovog zemaljskog života osim ukoliko se neće pokazati da Otac želi takvo posredovanje. Tako je jednom velikom odlukom Isus dobrovoljno odabrao odreći se svake nadljudske suradnje u svim područjima koji se tiču preostalog dijela njegovog smrtnog života, osim ukoliko sam Otac ne bi odlučiosudjelovati u nekom činu ili epizodi zemaljskih djela svojega Sina.
1955 136:5.4 In accepting this command of the universe hosts in attendance upon Christ Michael, the Personalized Adjuster took great pains to point out to Jesus that, while such an assembly of universe creatures could be limited in their space activities by the delegated authority of their Creator, such limitations were not operative in connection with their function in time. And this limitation was dependent on the fact that Adjusters are nontime beings when once they are personalized. Accordingly was Jesus admonished that, while the Adjuster’s control of the living intelligences placed under his command would be complete and perfect as to all matters involving space, there could be no such perfect limitations imposed regarding time. Said the Adjuster: “I will, as you have directed, enjoin the employment of this attendant host of universe intelligences in any manner in connection with your earth career except in those cases where the Paradise Father directs me to release such agencies in order that his divine will of your choosing may be accomplished, and in those instances where you may engage in any choice or act of your divine-human will which shall only involve departures from the natural earth order as to time. In all such events I am powerless, and your creatures here assembled in perfection and unity of power are likewise helpless. If your united natures once entertain such desires, these mandates of your choice will be forthwith executed. Your wish in all such matters will constitute the abridgment of time, and the thing projected is existent. Under my command this constitutes the fullest possible limitation which can be imposed upon your potential sovereignty. In my self-consciousness time is nonexistent, and therefore I cannot limit your creatures in anything related thereto.”
2014 136:5.4 Prihvativši zapovjedništvo nad kozmičkim mnoštvom koje je bilo uz Krista Mihaela, Personalizirani Ispravljač iznimno se trudio objasniti Isusu da iako se takvom skupu kozmičkih stvorenja mogu, po ovlaštenju njihovog Stvoritelja, ograničiti djelovanja u prostoru, nije moguće ograničiti njihovo djelovanje u vremenu. Naime, onog trenutka kad postanu personalizirani, Ispravljači postaju bezvremenska bića. Sukladno tome Ispravljač je upozorio Isusa da dok će nadzor kozmičkih inteligencija koja se nalaze pod njegovim zapovjedništvom biti potpun i savršen u pogledu svih stvari koja su vezana uz prostor, neće biti moguće postaviti tako savršena ograničenja što se tiče vremena. Ispravljač je rekao: "Kao što si i naložio, ja ću zabraniti djelovanje ovog pratećeg mnoštva kozmičkih inteligencija u svakoj situaciji koja je vezana uz tvoj zemaljski život osim u onim slučajevima kad će mi Rajski Otac naložiti da ih upotrijebim kako bi se mogla ostvariti njegova volja koju si odabrao, te u onim slučajevima kad bi odabrao učiniti nešto u skladu sa svojom ljudskom i božanskom voljom što bi zahtijevalo odstupanje od prirodnog zemaljskog reda u pogledu vremena. U takvim situacijama ja sam bespomoćan, i tvoja stvorenja ovdje okupljena u savršenstvu i jedinstvu moći također će u takvim situacijama biti bespomoćna. Ako tvoje ujedinjene naravi u nekom trenutku požele takvo što, tvoj će nalog biti odmah izvršen. Tvoja želja u svim takvim situacijama je sama po sebi skraćenje vremena, i stvar koju zaželiš odmah postoji. Pod mojim zapovjedništvom ovo je najveće moguće ograničenje koje se može nametnuti tvojoj potencijalnoj vrhovnoj vlasti. U mojoj svijesti vrijeme ne postoji, i stoga ne mogu ograničiti tvoja stvorenja u bilo čemu što je s njim povezano."
1955 136:5.5 Thus did Jesus become apprised of the working out of his decision to go on living as a man among men. He had by a single decision excluded all of his attendant universe hosts of varied intelligences from participating in his ensuing public ministry except in such matters as concerned time only. It therefore becomes evident that any possible supernatural or supposedly superhuman accompaniments of Jesus’ ministry pertained wholly to the elimination of time unless the Father in heaven specifically ruled otherwise. No miracle, ministry of mercy, or any other possible event occurring in connection with Jesus’ remaining earth labors could possibly be of the nature or character of an act transcending the natural laws established and regularly working in the affairs of man as he lives on Urantia except in this expressly stated matter of time. No limits, of course, could be placed upon the manifestations of “the Father’s will.” The elimination of time in connection with the expressed desire of this potential Sovereign of a universe could only be avoided by the direct and explicit act of the will of this God-man to the effect that time, as related to the act or event in question, should not be shortened or eliminated. In order to prevent the appearance of apparent time miracles, it was necessary for Jesus to remain constantly time conscious. Any lapse of time consciousness on his part, in connection with the entertainment of definite desire, was equivalent to the enactment of the thing conceived in the mind of this Creator Son, and without the intervention of time.
2014 136:5.5 Tako je Isus obaviješten o djelovanju njegove odluke da nastavi živjeti kao čovjek među ljudima. Jednom jedinom odlukom on je isključio cijelo prateće kozmičko mnoštvo raznovrsnih inteligencija iz sudjelovanja u njegovom javnom djelovanju, osim u situacijama koje bi se ticale isključivo vremena. Tako postaje jasno da su se bilo kakve nadnaravne ili navodno nadljudske popratne okolnosti Isusove službe odnosile u cjelosti na odstranjenje vremena, osim ukoliko sam nebeski Otac nije naredio drugačije. Niti jedno čudo, niti služba milosrđa, niti bilo koji drugi događaj koji se dogodio u svezi spreostalim dijelom Isusovih zemaljskih nastojanja ne može se protumačiti kao čin koji bi bio iznad prirodnih zakona koji su utemeljeni i stalni u životima ljudi na Urantijiosim u ovom izričito spomenutom problemu s vremenom. Naravno, ni na koji se način ne mogu ograničiti očitovanja "Očeve volje". Uklanjanje vremena u svezi s izraženom željom ovog potencijalnog Vrhovnog Vladara svemira može se izbjeći jedino kad bi bila izravna i izričita voljaovog Bogočovjeka da se vrijeme, u svezi s tim određenim činom ili događajem, ne skraćuje ili uklanja. Kako bi se spriječila pojava očitih čuda vremena, bilo je nužno da Isus bude stalno svjestan vremena. Bilo kakav gubitak svijesti o vremenu s njegove strane, a vezan uz nekakvu točno određenu želju, jednaka je ostarenju te želje smišljene u umu ovog Sina Stvoritelja, i bez intervencije vremena.
1955 136:5.6 Through the supervising control of his associated and Personalized Adjuster it was possible for Michael perfectly to limit his personal earth activities with reference to space, but it was not possible for the Son of Man thus to limit his new earth status as potential Sovereign of Nebadon as regards time. And this was the actual status of Jesus of Nazareth as he went forth to begin his public ministry on Urantia.
2014 136:5.6 Mihael je mogao, preko nadgledanja svojeg pridruženog Personaliziranog Ispravljača, savršeno ograničiti svoja osobna zemaljska djelovanja s obzirom na prostor, ali Sinu Čovječjem nije bilo moguće ograničiti svoj novi zemaljski položaj potencijalnog Vrhovnog Vladara Nebadona s obzirom na vrijeme. Upravo je ovo bio točan položaj Isusa iz Nazareta kad je započeo sa svojom javnom službom na Urantiji.
¶ 6. DRUGA ODLUKA
6. THE SECOND DECISION
6. DRUGA ODLUKA
1955 136:6.1 Having settled his policy concerning all personalities of all classes of his created intelligences, so far as this could be determined in view of the inherent potential of his new status of divinity, Jesus now turned his thoughts toward himself. What would he, now the fully self-conscious creator of all things and beings existent in this universe, do with these creator prerogatives in the recurring life situations which would immediately confront him when he returned to Galilee to resume his work among men? In fact, already, and right where he was in these lonely hills, had this problem forcibly presented itself in the matter of obtaining food. By the third day of his solitary meditations the human body grew hungry. Should he go in quest of food as any ordinary man would, or should he merely exercise his normal creative powers and produce suitable bodily nourishment ready at hand? And this great decision of the Master has been portrayed to you as a temptation—as a challenge by supposed enemies that he “command that these stones become loaves of bread.”
2014 136:6.1 Odredivši svoj stav prema osobnostima svih redova svojih stvorenih inteligencija do one mjere koliko se to moglo odrediti s obzirom na urođeni potencijal svog novog božanskog položaja, Isus je sada svoje misli usredotočio na sebe. Što će on, u potpunosti svjestan sebe kao stvoritelja svih stvari i bića koje postoje u ovome svemiru, učiniti s tim svojim povlasticama koje kao stvoritelj ima u životnim situacijama koje će ga dočekati kad se vrati u Galileju da bi započeo svoj rad među ljudima? Zapravo, ovaj se problem već snažno nametnuo i to upravo u tim usamljenim brdima kad je trebao pronaći hranu. Trećega je dana njegovog osamljenog meditiranja tijelo postalo gladno. Hoće li krenuti u potragu za hranom kao i bilo koji drugi obični čovjek, ili će jednostavno upotrijebiti svoje normalne sposobnosti koje kao stvoritelj ima i stvoriti si prikladnu hranu odmah tu kraj sebe? I ovu su veliku Učiteljevu odluku opisali kao kušnju - izazov navodnih neprijatelja da "naredida ovo kamenje postane kruh."[26]
1955 136:6.2 Jesus thus settled upon another and consistent policy for the remainder of his earth labors. As far as his personal necessities were concerned, and in general even in his relations with other personalities, he now deliberately chose to pursue the path of normal earthly existence; he definitely decided against a policy which would transcend, violate, or outrage his own established natural laws. But he could not promise himself, as he had already been warned by his Personalized Adjuster, that these natural laws might not, in certain conceivable circumstances, be greatly accelerated. In principle, Jesus decided that his lifework should be organized and prosecuted in accordance with natural law and in harmony with the existing social organization. The Master thereby chose a program of living which was the equivalent of deciding against miracles and wonders. Again he decided in favor of “the Father’s will”; again he surrendered everything into the hands of his Paradise Father.
2014 136:6.2 Isus se tako odlučio za još jednu dosljednu smjernicu za preostali dio svojega zemaljskoga života. Što se tiče njegovih osobnih potreba, i čak općenito njegovih odnosa s drugim osobnostima, on je sada samovoljno odabrao nastaviti stazom normalnoga zemaljskoga postojanja; jasno se odlučio protiv načina djelovanja koji bi nadilazio, kršio ili teško povrijedio prirodne zakone koje je on sam utemeljio. Ali nije mogao sebi obećati, kako ga je njegov Personalizirani Ispravljač već upozorio, da ovi prirodni zakoni, u nekim slučajevima, neće biti uvelike ubrzani. U pravilu, Isus je odlučio da će njegov život biti organiziran i proveden u skladu s prirodnim zakonom i postojećim društvenim ustrojem. Učitelj je tako odabrao način življenja u kojem nije bilo mjesta za čuda. Još se jedanput odlučio za "Očevu volju"; još je jedanput sve predao u ruke svojega Rajskoga Oca.
1955 136:6.3 Jesus’ human nature dictated that the first duty was self-preservation; that is the normal attitude of the natural man on the worlds of time and space, and it is, therefore, a legitimate reaction of a Urantia mortal. But Jesus was not concerned merely with this world and its creatures; he was living a life designed to instruct and inspire the manifold creatures of a far-flung universe.
2014 136:6.3 U ljudskoj je naravi Isusu kao najvažnija dužnost bilo upisano samoočuvanje; to je normalan stav svakoga čovjeka na svjetovima vremena i prostora, te je tako to pravovaljana reakcija i smrtnika na Urantiji. Ali Isusa nisu zanimali samo ovaj svijet i njegova stvorenja. On je živio život koji je trebao poučiti i nadahnuti mnogobrojna stvorenja široko rasprostranjenog svemira.
1955 136:6.4 Before his baptismal illumination he had lived in perfect submission to the will and guidance of his heavenly Father. He emphatically decided to continue on in just such implicit mortal dependence on the Father’s will. He purposed to follow the unnatural course—he decided not to seek self-preservation. He chose to go on pursuing the policy of refusing to defend himself. He formulated his conclusions in the words of Scripture familiar to his human mind: “Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” In reaching this conclusion in regard to the appetite of the physical nature as expressed in hunger for food, the Son of Man made his final declaration concerning all other urges of the flesh and the natural impulses of human nature.
2014 136:6.4 Prije svojeg prosvjetljenja za vrijeme krštenja Isus je živio svoj život u potpunoj podložnosti volji i vodstvu svojega nebeskoga Oca. On je energično odlučio nastaviti s takvom bezuvjetnom smrtničkom ovisnošću o Očevoj volji. Odlučio je slijediti prirodni tijek - odlučio je ne tražiti samoočuvanje. Odlučio je da će nastaviti s dosadašnjom praksom odbijanja da se brani. Svoje je zaključke uobličio u riječi iz Pisma s kojima je njegov ljudski um bio dobro upoznat : "Čovjek ne živi samo o kruhu već o svakoj riječi koja izlazi iz usta Božjih[27]." Kad je jednom formulirao ovaj zaključak u svezi sa željama fizičke naravi koji se očituju kao glad za hranom,Sin je Čovječji donio konačnu odluku vezanu za bilo koju drugu tjelesnu žudnju ili prirodne nagone svoje ljudske naravi.
1955 136:6.5 His superhuman power he might possibly use for others, but for himself, never. And he pursued this policy consistently to the very end, when it was jeeringly said of him: “He saved others; himself he cannot save”—because he would not.
1955 136:6.6 The Jews were expecting a Messiah who would do even greater wonders than Moses, who was reputed to have brought forth water from the rock in a desert place and to have fed their forefathers with manna in the wilderness. Jesus knew the sort of Messiah his compatriots expected, and he had all the powers and prerogatives to measure up to their most sanguine expectations, but he decided against such a magnificent program of power and glory. Jesus looked upon such a course of expected miracle working as a harking back to the olden days of ignorant magic and the degraded practices of the savage medicine men. Possibly, for the salvation of his creatures, he might accelerate natural law, but to transcend his own laws, either for the benefit of himself or the overawing of his fellow men, that he would not do. And the Master’s decision was final.
2014 136:6.6 Židovi su očekivali Mesiju koji će biti veći čak i od Mojsija, za kojeg su vjerovali da je učinio da voda potekne iz stijene u pustinji i koji je njihove pretke hranio manom. Isus je znao kakvog Mesiju njegovi sunarodnjaci očekuju, a posjedovao je sve moći i sposobnosti potrebne da udovolji i njihovim najoptimističnijim očekivanjima, no odlučio se protiv takvog veličanstvenog izražavanja moći i slave. Isus je smatrao da bi takav razvoj događaja pun očekivanih čudesa djelovao kao nazadovanje prema starim danima neuke magije i sramotnih običaja barbarskih vračeva. Ukoliko bi to bilo potrebno zbog spasenja svojih stvorenja, Isus bi mogao ubrzati prirodni zakon, ali nadići svoje vlastite zakone, bilo zbog vlastite dobrobiti ili kako bi zastrašio svoje bližnje, to Isus nikako nije htio učiniti. I Učiteljeva je odluka bila konačna.
1955 136:6.7 Jesus sorrowed for his people; he fully understood how they had been led up to the expectation of the coming Messiah, the time when “the earth will yield its fruits ten thousandfold, and on one vine there will be a thousand branches, and each branch will produce a thousand clusters, and each cluster will produce a thousand grapes, and each grape will produce a gallon of wine.” The Jews believed the Messiah would usher in an era of miraculous plenty. The Hebrews had long been nurtured on traditions of miracles and legends of wonders.
2014 136:6.7 Isus je bio tužan zbog svojega naroda[29]. U potpunosti je shvaćao da su ih naučili očekivati Mesiju koji treba doći, i vremena kada će "zemlja donositi stostruki plod, i na jednoj će lozi biti tisuću grana, i na svakoj će grani biti tisuću grozdova i svaki će grozd imati tisuću bobica grožđa i svaka će bobica grožđa dati litre vina." Židovi su vjerovali da će s Mesijom nastupiti razdoblje čudesnoga bogatstva. Židove su dugo odgajali u tradiciji čudesa i u legendama o čudima.
1955 136:6.8 He was not a Messiah coming to multiply bread and wine. He came not to minister to temporal needs only; he came to reveal his Father in heaven to his children on earth, while he sought to lead his earth children to join him in a sincere effort so to live as to do the will of the Father in heaven.
2014 136:6.8 Isus nije bio Mesija koji je došao umnožiti kruh i vino. On nije došao kako bi osigurao samo svjetovne potrebe. On je došao pokazati svog Oca na nebu svojoj zemaljskoj djeci, te je želio svoju zemaljsku djecu pozvati da mu se pridruže u iskrenom nastojanju da žive svoje živote vršeći volju Oca na nebu.
1955 136:6.9 In this decision Jesus of Nazareth portrayed to an onlooking universe the folly and sin of prostituting divine talents and God-given abilities for personal aggrandizement or for purely selfish gain and glorification. That was the sin of Lucifer and Caligastia.
2014 136:6.9 Ovom je odlukom Isus iz Nazareta pokazao svim stanovnicima svemira ludost i grijeh obeščašćivanja božanskih darova i bogom danih sposobnosti za osobno uzdizanje ili za potpuno sebičnu dobit i veličanje. Od toga se sastojao grijeh Lucifera i Kaligastije.
1955 136:6.10 This great decision of Jesus portrays dramatically the truth that selfish satisfaction and sensuous gratification, alone and of themselves, are not able to confer happiness upon evolving human beings. There are higher values in mortal existence—intellectual mastery and spiritual achievement—which far transcend the necessary gratification of man’s purely physical appetites and urges. Man’s natural endowment of talent and ability should be chiefly devoted to the development and ennoblement of his higher powers of mind and spirit.
2014 136:6.10 Ova velika Isusova odluka na dramatičan način pokazuje istinu da sebično zadovoljstvo i čulno zadovoljenje, sami po sebi i za sebe, ne mogu donijeti sreću ljudskim bićima koja se razvijaju. Postoje više vrijednosti u smrtničkom postojanju - vlast nad umom i duhovno postignuće - koji daleko nadilaze nužno zadovoljenje čovjekovihčisto tjelesnih apetita i poriva. Čovjekovo prirodno obdarenje talentom i sposobnostima trebalo bi se najprije posvetiti razvoju i oplemenjivanju njegovih viših snaga uma i duha.
1955 136:6.11 Jesus thus revealed to the creatures of his universe the technique of the new and better way, the higher moral values of living and the deeper spiritual satisfactions of evolutionary human existence on the worlds of space.
2014 136:6.11 Na ovaj je način Isus stvorenjima svojega svemira pokazao novi i bolji način, više moralne vrijednosti življenja i dublja duhovna zadovoljstva razvojnog ljudskog postojanja na svjetovima u svemiru.
¶ 7. TREĆA ODLUKA
7. THE THIRD DECISION
7. TREĆA ODLUKA
1955 136:7.1 Having made his decisions regarding such matters as food and physical ministration to the needs of his material body, the care of the health of himself and his associates, there remained yet other problems to solve. What would be his attitude when confronted by personal danger? He decided to exercise normal watchcare over his human safety and to take reasonable precaution to prevent the untimely termination of his career in the flesh but to refrain from all superhuman intervention when the crisis of his life in the flesh should come. As he was formulating this decision, Jesus was seated under the shade of a tree on an overhanging ledge of rock with a precipice right there before him. He fully realized that he could cast himself off the ledge and out into space, and that nothing could happen to harm him provided he would rescind his first great decision not to invoke the interposition of his celestial intelligences in the prosecution of his lifework on Urantia, and provided he would abrogate his second decision concerning his attitude toward self-preservation.
2014 136:7.1 Donijevši odluke koje su se ticale hrane i tjelesnog zadovoljavanja potreba svojeg materijalnog tijela, brige o svojem zdravlju i zdravlju svojih suradnika, Isusa je čekao još jedan problem koji je trebao riješiti. Kakav će biti njegov stav kad će se suočiti s osobnom opasnosti? Odlučio je paziti na svoju sigurnost kao i svi drugi ljudi, te je odlučio poduzeti sve razumne korake kako bi spriječio prijevremeni završetak svojeg tjelesnog života, ali se također odlučio i protiv nadljudskih posredovanja u trenutcima kad će doći kraj njegovog života u tijelu. Dok je donosio ovu odluku, Isus je sjedio u hladovini jednog drveta na grebenu izbočenom nad ponorom. U potpunosti je shvaćao da bi se mogao baciti s litice u ponor i da mu se ne bi dogodilo ništa što bi mu naškodilo ukoliko bi opozvao svoju prvu veliku odluku da se odriče posredovanja svojih nebeskih inteligencija u svom životu na Urantiji, te ukoliko bi opozvao svoju drugu odluku vezanu uz stav prema samoočuvanju.[30]
1955 136:7.2 Jesus knew his fellow countrymen were expecting a Messiah who would be above natural law. Well had he been taught that Scripture: “There shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. They shall bear you up in their hands lest you dash your foot against a stone.” Would this sort of presumption, this defiance of his Father’s laws of gravity, be justified in order to protect himself from possible harm or, perchance, to win the confidence of his mistaught and distracted people? But such a course, however gratifying to the sign-seeking Jews, would be, not a revelation of his Father, but a questionable trifling with the established laws of the universe of universes.
2014 136:7.2 Isus je dobro znao da njegovi sunarodnjaci očekuju Mesiju koji će biti iznad prirodnoga zakona. Dobro je poznavao onaj dio Pisma koji govori:"Neće te snaći nesreća, nevolja se neće prikučiti šatoru tvojemu. Jer anđelima svojim zapovjedi da te čuvaju na svim putovima tvojim. Na rukama će te nositi da se ne spotakneš o kamen[31]." Bi li ovakva drskost, ovakav prkos prema Očevim zakonima gravitacije bila opravdana kad bi bila potrebna da bi se zaštitio od mogućeg zla, ili možda da bi stekao povjerenje svojeg krivo naučenog i zavedenog naroda? Ali takav tijek, koliko god zadovoljavajuć za Židove koji traže znak, ne bi bio otkrivenje njegovoga Oca, već upitno poigravanje s utemeljenim zakonima svemira nad svemirima.
1955 136:7.3 Understanding all of this and knowing that the Master refused to work in defiance of his established laws of nature in so far as his personal conduct was concerned, you know of a certainty that he never walked on the water nor did anything else which was an outrage to his material order of administering the world; always, of course, bearing in mind that there had, as yet, been found no way whereby he could be wholly delivered from the lack of control over the element of time in connection with those matters put under the jurisdiction of the Personalized Adjuster.
2014 136:7.3 Shvaćajući sve ovo i poznavajući Učiteljevo odbijanje da radi suprotno svojim utemeljenim prirodnim zakonima u situacijama koje bi se ticale njegovog osobnog ponašanja, zasigurno vam je jasno da on nikad nije hodao po vodi niti učinio bilo što drugo što bi teško povrijedilo njegov materijalni red upravljanja svijetom[32][33]. Naravno, uvijek trebate imati na umu da se do ovog trenutka nije našao način na koji bi se mogao u potpunosti osloboditi nedostatka kontrole nad vremenom kad se radi o stvarima nad kojima nadležnost ima Personalizirani Ispravljač.
¶ 8. ČETVRTA ODLUKA
8. THE FOURTH DECISION
8. ČETVRTA ODLUKA
1955 136:8.1 The next great problem with which this God-man wrestled and which he presently decided in accordance with the will of the Father in heaven, concerned the question as to whether or not any of his superhuman powers should be employed for the purpose of attracting the attention and winning the adherence of his fellow men. Should he in any manner lend his universe powers to the gratification of the Jewish hankering for the spectacular and the marvelous? He decided that he should not. He settled upon a policy of procedure which eliminated all such practices as the method of bringing his mission to the notice of men. And he consistently lived up to this great decision. Even when he permitted the manifestation of numerous time-shortening ministrations of mercy, he almost invariably admonished the recipients of his healing ministry to tell no man about the benefits they had received. And always did he refuse the taunting challenge of his enemies to “show us a sign” in proof and demonstration of his divinity.
2014 136:8.1 Sljedeći veliki problem s kojim se ovaj Bogočovjek uhvatio u koštac i oko kojega će uskoro donijeti odluku u skladu s voljom nebeskoga Oca ticao se pitanja hoće li koristiti bilo koje od svojih nadljudskih moći kako bi privukao pozornost i zadobio privrženost svojih bližnjih. Hoće li on na bilo koji način upotrijebiti svoje kozmičke moći kako bi zadovoljio čežnju Židova za spektakularnim i čudesnim? Odlučio je da neće. Odlučio se za politiku koja odbacuje svaki takav način na koji bi svratio pozornost ljudi na svoju misiju. I ustrajno je živio u skladu s ovom velikom odlukom. Čak i kad je dozvolio očitovanje brojnih milosrdnih usluga koje su uključivale skraćivanje vremena, uvijek bi primateljima iscjeljenja rekao da nikome ne govore o pomoći koju su dobili. A uvijek je odbijao podrugljivo izazivanje svojih neprijatelja da im "da znak" kako bi dokazao i pokazao svoje božansko podrijetlo[35].[36]
1955 136:8.2 Jesus very wisely foresaw that the working of miracles and the execution of wonders would call forth only outward allegiance by overawing the material mind; such performances would not reveal God nor save men. He refused to become a mere wonder-worker. He resolved to become occupied with but a single task—the establishment of the kingdom of heaven.
2014 136:8.2 Isus je vrlo mudro predvidio da bi čuda, zbog toga što ostavljaju dubok dojam na materijalni um, potaknula samo površnu privrženost; takva djela ne bi otkrila Boga niti bi spasila ljude. Odbio je postati puki čudotvorac. Odlučio je posvetiti se jednom jedinom zadatku - utemeljenju kraljevstva nebeskoga.
1955 136:8.3 Throughout all this momentous dialogue of Jesus’ communing with himself, there was present the human element of questioning and near-doubting, for Jesus was man as well as God. It was evident he would never be received by the Jews as the Messiah if he did not work wonders. Besides, if he would consent to do just one unnatural thing, the human mind would know of a certainty that it was in subservience to a truly divine mind. Would it be consistent with “the Father’s will” for the divine mind to make this concession to the doubting nature of the human mind? Jesus decided that it would not and cited the presence of the Personalized Adjuster as sufficient proof of divinity in partnership with humanity.
2014 136:8.3 Tijekom ovog Isusovog značajnog razgovora sa samim sobom, u ljudskom je dijelu bio prisutanelement propitivanja, pa čak i sumnje, jer je Isus bio i čovjek, kao i Bog. Bilo je očito da ga Židovi nikad neće prihvatiti za Mesiju ako ne bude činio čuda. Osim toga, ako pristane napraviti samo jednu neprirodnu stvar, ljudski um će zasigurno znati da se pokorava pravom božanskom umu. Bi li bilo u skladu s "Očevom voljom" da božanski um napravi ovaj ustupak sumnjičavom ljudskom umu? Isus je odlučio da ne bi te je rekao da je prisutnost Personaliziranog Ispravljača dovoljni dokaz suradnje božanskoga s ljudskim[37].
1955 136:8.4 Jesus had traveled much; he recalled Rome, Alexandria, and Damascus. He knew the methods of the world—how people gained their ends in politics and commerce by compromise and diplomacy. Would he utilize this knowledge in the furtherance of his mission on earth? No! He likewise decided against all compromise with the wisdom of the world and the influence of riches in the establishment of the kingdom. He again chose to depend exclusively on the Father’s will.
2014 136:8.4 Isus je puno putovao. Sjetio se Rima, Aleksandrije i Damaska. Poznavao je načine svijeta - kako su ljudi ostvarivali svoje ciljeve u politici i trgovini kroz kompromis i diplomaciju. Hoće li on koristiti ovo znanje u promicanju svoje misije na zemlji? Ne! Isto se tako odlučio protiv bilo kakvog kompromisa s mudrošću svijeta i utjecaju bogatstva u utemeljenju kraljevstva. Iznova je odabrao ovisiti isključivo o Očevoj volji.
1955 136:8.5 Jesus was fully aware of the short cuts open to one of his powers. He knew many ways in which the attention of the nation, and the whole world, could be immediately focused upon himself. Soon the Passover would be celebrated at Jerusalem; the city would be thronged with visitors. He could ascend the pinnacle of the temple and before the bewildered multitude walk out on the air; that would be the kind of a Messiah they were looking for. But he would subsequently disappoint them since he had not come to re-establish David’s throne. And he knew the futility of the Caligastia method of trying to get ahead of the natural, slow, and sure way of accomplishing the divine purpose. Again the Son of Man bowed obediently to the Father’s way, the Father’s will.
2014 136:8.5 Isus je bio u potpunosti svjestan prečaca koje bi mogao ostvariti uporabom svojih moći. Poznavao je mnoge načine na koji bi mogao pažnju naroda, pa i cijeloga svijeta, odmah privući na sebe. Uskoro će se slaviti Pasha u Jeruzalemu; grad će biti ispunjen posjetiteljima. Mogao bi se popeti na vrh hrama i pred izbezumljenom gomilom prošetati po zraku; bio bi to Mesija kakvog su isčekivali[38]. Ali kasnije bi ih morao razočarati, jer nije došao obnoviti Davidovo prijestolje. Poznavao je uzaludnost Kaligastijine metode kojom je želio preteći prirodan, spor i siguran način postizanja božanskoga cilja. Opet se Sin Čovječji poslušno priklonio Očevom načinu, Očevoj volji.
1955 136:8.6 Jesus chose to establish the kingdom of heaven in the hearts of mankind by natural, ordinary, difficult, and trying methods, just such procedures as his earth children must subsequently follow in their work of enlarging and extending that heavenly kingdom. For well did the Son of Man know that it would be “through much tribulation that many of the children of all ages would enter into the kingdom.” Jesus was now passing through the great test of civilized man, to have power and steadfastly refuse to use it for purely selfish or personal purposes.
2014 136:8.6 Isus je izabrao uspostaviti kraljevstvo nebesko u srcima ljudi prirodnim, običnim, teškim i napornim metodama, onakvim postupcima koja njegova zemaljska djeca kasnije moraju upotrijebiti da bi nastavila svoj posao povećanja i proširenja tog nebeskog kraljevstva. Jer je Sin Čovječji dobro znao da će "kroz mnoge nevolje mnoga djeca svih doba ući u kraljevstvo[39]." Isus je sada prolazio kroz veliku kušnju civiliziranog čovjeka, imati moć i uporno je odbijati upotrijebiti za ostvarivanje isključivo sebičnih ili osobnih ciljeva.
1955 136:8.7 In your consideration of the life and experience of the Son of Man, it should be ever borne in mind that the Son of God was incarnate in the mind of a first-century human being, not in the mind of a twentieth-century or other-century mortal. By this we mean to convey the idea that the human endowments of Jesus were of natural acquirement. He was the product of the hereditary and environmental factors of his time, plus the influence of his training and education. His humanity was genuine, natural, wholly derived from the antecedents of, and fostered by, the actual intellectual status and social and economic conditions of that day and generation. While in the experience of this God-man there was always the possibility that the divine mind would transcend the human intellect, nonetheless, when, and as, his human mind functioned, it did perform as would a true mortal mind under the conditions of the human environment of that day.
2014 136:8.7 Dok razmišljate o životu i iskustvima Sina Čovječjeg, uvijek imajte na umu da je Sin Božji bio utjelovljen u um ljudskoga bića iz prvog stoljeća, a ne u um smrtnika iz dvadesetog ili bilo kojeg drugog stoljeća. S ovakvom tvrdnjom želimo vam prenijeti ideju da je Isus svoje ljudske darove stekao prirodnim putom. On je bio proizvod nasljednih faktora i okoline svojega vremena, a na njega su utjecali i odgoj i obrazovanje. Njegova je ljudskost bila izvorna i prirodna. U potpunosti je prozlazila iz stvarnog intelektualnog položaja i ekonomskih uvjeta tog doba i naraštaja, te su je ti isti faktori i poticali. Dok je u iskustvu ovog Bogočovjeka uvijek postojala mogućnost da će božanski um nadići ljudski intelekt, ipak je, kada je njegov ljudski um djelovao, on radio onako kako bi radio istinski smrtnički um u uvjetima ljudske okoline toga dana.
1955 136:8.8 Jesus portrayed to all the worlds of his vast universe the folly of creating artificial situations for the purpose of exhibiting arbitrary authority or of indulging exceptional power for the purpose of enhancing moral values or accelerating spiritual progress. Jesus decided that he would not lend his mission on earth to a repetition of the disappointment of the reign of the Maccabees. He refused to prostitute his divine attributes for the purpose of acquiring unearned popularity or for gaining political prestige. He would not countenance the transmutation of divine and creative energy into national power or international prestige. Jesus of Nazareth refused to compromise with evil, much less to consort with sin. The Master triumphantly put loyalty to his Father’s will above every other earthly and temporal consideration.
2014 136:8.8 Isus je svim svjetovima svojeg ogromnog svemira pokazao ludost stvaranja umjetnih situacija kako bi pokazao samovoljni autoritet ili kako bi udovoljavao izuzetnim moćima ne bi li povisio moralne vrijednosti ili ubrzao duhovni napredak.Isus je odlučio da njegova misija ne zemlji neće ponoviti razočarenje vladavine Makabejaca. Odbio je prostituirati svoje božanske osobine ne bi li zadobio nezasluženu popularnost ili dobio politički prestiž. On neće odobravati pretvaranje božanske i kreativne energije u nacionalnu moć ili međunarodni prestiž. Isus iz Nazareta odbio je kompromis sa zlom, da i ne spominjemo druženje s grijehom. Učitelj je slavodobitno postavio vjernost Očevoj volji iznad svakog drugog ljudskog i materijalnog razmatranja.
¶ 9. PETA ODLUKA
9. THE FIFTH DECISION
9. PETA ODLUKA
1955 136:9.1 Having settled such questions of policy as pertained to his individual relations to natural law and spiritual power, he turned his attention to the choice of methods to be employed in the proclamation and establishment of the kingdom of God. John had already begun this work; how might he continue the message? How should he take over John’s mission? How should he organize his followers for effective effort and intelligent co-operation? Jesus was now reaching the final decision which would forbid that he further regard himself as the Jewish Messiah, at least as the Messiah was popularly conceived in that day.
2014 136:9.1 Od lučivši se za metode u području svog osobnog odnosa prema prirodnom zakonu i duhovnoj moći, Isus je svoju pažnju posvetio izboru metoda koje će koristiti u propovijedanju i utemeljenju kraljevstva Božjeg. Ivan je već započeo ovaj posao; kako će on nastaviti naviještati tu poruku? Kako će preuzeti Ivanovu misiju? Kako će organizirati svoje sljedbenike da njihov trud bude učinkovit, a suradnja razumna? Isus je sada trebao donijeti posljednju odluku kojom će zabraniti da sebe ikad više smatra židovskim Mesijom, ili baremonakvim Mesijom kakvog je tada većina zamišljala.
1955 136:9.2 The Jews envisaged a deliverer who would come in miraculous power to cast down Israel’s enemies and establish the Jews as world rulers, free from want and oppression. Jesus knew that this hope would never be realized. He knew that the kingdom of heaven had to do with the overthrow of evil in the hearts of men, and that it was purely a matter of spiritual concern. He thought out the advisability of inaugurating the spiritual kingdom with a brilliant and dazzling display of power—and such a course would have been permissible and wholly within the jurisdiction of Michael—but he fully decided against such a plan. He would not compromise with the revolutionary techniques of Caligastia. He had won the world in potential by submission to the Father’s will, and he proposed to finish his work as he had begun it, and as the Son of Man.
2014 136:9.2 Židovi su zamišljali izbavitelja koji će doći u čudesnoj moći kako bi ponizio Izraelove neprijatelje i postavio Židove za svjetske vladare, slobodne od svake neimaštine ili ugnjetavanja. Isus je znao da se ovakva nada nikada neće ostvariti. Znao je da je kraljevstvo nebesko trebalo savladati zlo u srcima ljudi, i da se zanimalo s isključivo duhovnim stvarima. Razmišljao je o uputnosti ustoličenja duhovnog kraljevstva kroz sjajno i blistavo pokazivanje moći - a takvo što bilo bi dopustljivo i u potpunoj Mihaelovoj nadležnosti - ali on se odlučio protiv takvoga plana. Nije želio kompromis s revolucionarnim tehnikama Kaligastije. On je potencijalno osvojio svijet podvrgavajući se Očevoj volji, i odlučio je završiti svoj posao onako kako ga je i započeo, kao Sin Čovječji.
1955 136:9.3 You can hardly imagine what would have happened on Urantia had this God-man, now in potential possession of all power in heaven and on earth, once decided to unfurl the banner of sovereignty, to marshal his wonder-working battalions in militant array! But he would not compromise. He would not serve evil that the worship of God might presumably be derived therefrom. He would abide by the Father’s will. He would proclaim to an onlooking universe, “You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.”
2014 136:9.3 Teško da možete i zamisliti što bi se dogodilo na Urantiji da se ovaj Bogočovjek, koji je sada potencijalno posjedovao svu vlast na nebu i zemlji, u bilo kojem trenutku odlučio razmotati zastavu svoje vrhovne vlasti i poveo svoje čudotvorne bataljune u vojničke bojne redove! Ali on nije želio raditi kompromise. Nije želio služiti zlu ne bi li se iz takvog čina možda ostvarilo obožavanje Boga. On je želio vršiti Očevu volju. Želio je navijestiti svemiru koji ga je promatrao: "Obožavaj Gospodina Boga svojega i njemu jedinom služi."[40]
1955 136:9.4 As the days passed, with ever-increasing clearness Jesus perceived what kind of a truth-revealer he was to become. He discerned that God’s way was not going to be the easy way. He began to realize that the cup of the remainder of his human experience might possibly be bitter, but he decided to drink it.
1955 136:9.5 Even his human mind is saying good-bye to the throne of David. Step by step this human mind follows in the path of the divine. The human mind still asks questions but unfailingly accepts the divine answers as final rulings in this combined life of living as a man in the world while all the time submitting unqualifiedly to the doing of the Father’s eternal and divine will.
2014 136:9.5 Čak se i njegov ljudski um opraštao od Davidovog prijestolja. Korak po korak i ovaj ljudski um korača božanskim putom. Ljudski um još uvijek postavlja pitanja, ali bez iznimke prihvaća božanske odgovore kao konačne odluke u ovom udruženom življenju kao čovjek u svijetu dok se cijelo vrijeme bezuvjetno podvrgava vršenju Očeve vječne i božanske volje.
1955 136:9.6 Rome was mistress of the Western world. The Son of Man, now in isolation and achieving these momentous decisions, with the hosts of heaven at his command, represented the last chance of the Jews to attain world dominion; but this earthborn Jew, who possessed such tremendous wisdom and power, declined to use his universe endowments either for the aggrandizement of himself or for the enthronement of his people. He saw, as it were, “the kingdoms of this world,” and he possessed the power to take them. The Most Highs of Edentia had resigned all these powers into his hands, but he did not want them. The kingdoms of earth were paltry things to interest the Creator and Ruler of a universe. He had only one objective, the further revelation of God to man, the establishment of the kingdom, the rule of the heavenly Father in the hearts of mankind.
2014 136:9.6 Rim je bio vladar Zapadnoga svijeta. Sin Čovječji, dok u osami donosi ove značajne odluke, s nebeskim vojskama koje iščekuju njegov znak, predstavlja posljednju priliku da Židovi ostvarevladavinu nad svijetom[42]. Ali ovaj rođeni Židov koji je posjedovao takvu veličanstvenu mudrost i moć odbio je upotrijebiti svoje kozmičke darove bilo kako bi uveličao sebe ili kako bi ustoličio svoj narod. Vidio je, rekli bismo, "kraljevstva svijeta", i imao je moć osvojiti ih. Svevišnji Edentije predali su ove moći u njegove ruke, ali on ih nije želio. Zemaljska kraljevstva bila su bezvrijedne stvari za Stvoritelja i Vladara jednog svemira. On je imao samo jedan cilj, a to je bilo promicanje otkrivenja Boga čovjeku, utemeljenje kraljevstva, vladavine nebeskoga Oca u srcima ljudi.
1955 136:9.7 The idea of battle, contention, and slaughter was repugnant to Jesus; he would have none of it. He would appear on earth as the Prince of Peace to reveal a God of love. Before his baptism he had again refused the offer of the Zealots to lead them in rebellion against the Roman oppressors. And now he made his final decision regarding those Scriptures which his mother had taught him, such as: “The Lord has said to me, ‘You are my Son; this day have I begotten you. Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen for your inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.’”
2014 136:9.7 Pomisao na bitke, borbe i ubojstava Isusu je bila odbojna; on s time nije želio imati nikakve veze. On će se na zemlji pojaviti kao Knez Mironosni koji će pokazati Boga ljubavi. Prije svojeg krštenja on je još jednom odbio ponudu Zelota da ih povede u ustanak protiv Rimskog osvajača. A sada je donio konačnu odluku u svezi dijelova Pisma koje ga je učila njegova majka, kao što su bili: "Gospodin mi reče,'Ti si Sin moj; danas te rodih. Zatraži samo i dat ću ti puke u baštinu i u posjed sve krajeve zemaljske. Vladat ćeš nad njima palicom gvozdenom, i razbit ih kao sud lončarski[43].'"
1955 136:9.8 Jesus of Nazareth reached the conclusion that such utterances did not refer to him. At last, and finally, the human mind of the Son of Man made a clean sweep of all these Messianic difficulties and contradictions—Hebrew scriptures, parental training, chazan teaching, Jewish expectations, and human ambitious longings; once and for all he decided upon his course. He would return to Galilee and quietly begin the proclamation of the kingdom and trust his Father (the Personalized Adjuster) to work out the details of procedure day by day.
2014 136:9.8 Isus iz Nazareta zaključio je da se takve izjave ne odnose na njega. Konačno je ljudski um Sina Čovječjeg odbacio sve te mesijanske teškoće i protuslovlja - židovska pisma, roditeljski odgoj, rabinova učenja, židovska iščekivanja, i ljudske ambiciozne težnje. Jednom zauvijek Isus je odlučio na koji će način nastaviti svoj život. Vratit će se u Galileju i tiho će započeti naviještati kraljevstvo, a Ocu (i Personaliziranom Ispravljaču) povjerit će izradu detalja dana za danom.
1955 136:9.9 By these decisions Jesus set a worthy example for every person on every world throughout a vast universe when he refused to apply material tests to prove spiritual problems, when he refused presumptuously to defy natural laws. And he set an inspiring example of universe loyalty and moral nobility when he refused to grasp temporal power as the prelude to spiritual glory.
2014 136:9.9 Ovim je odlukama Isus postavio vrijedan primjer za svaku osobu na svakom svijetu diljem širokog svemira, jer je odbio materijalnim iskušavanjem riješiti duhovne probleme, jer je odbio drsko izazivati prirodne zakone. Postavio je nadahnjujući primjer kozmičke vjernosti i moralnog plemstva kad je odbio posegnuti za materijalnom moći koja bi ga uvela u duhovnu slavu.
1955 136:9.10 If the Son of Man had any doubts about his mission and its nature when he went up in the hills after his baptism, he had none when he came back to his fellows following the forty days of isolation and decisions.
2014 136:9.10 Ukoliko je Sin Čovječji imalo sumnjao u svoju misiju i njezinu prirodu kad se popeo u brda nakon svojega krštenja, takvo što nije postojalo kad sevratio svojim bližnjima nakon četrdeset dana osame i donošenja odluka.
1955 136:9.11 Jesus has formulated a program for the establishment of the Father’s kingdom. He will not cater to the physical gratification of the people. He will not deal out bread to the multitudes as he has so recently seen it being done in Rome. He will not attract attention to himself by wonder-working, even though the Jews are expecting just that sort of a deliverer. Neither will he seek to win acceptance of a spiritual message by a show of political authority or temporal power.
2014 136:9.11 Isus je osmislio program za utemeljenje Očevog kraljevstva. Neće udovoljavati tjelesnim zadovoljstvima ljudi. Neće svjetini dijeliti kruh kako je nedavno vidio da se radi u Rimu. Neće privlačiti pažnju na sebe čineći čuda, iako su Židovi očekivali baš takvoga izbavitelja. Niti će pokušati ostvariti prihvaćanje duhovne poruke pokazujući politički autoritet i svjetovnu moć.
1955 136:9.12 In rejecting these methods of enhancing the coming kingdom in the eyes of the expectant Jews, Jesus made sure that these same Jews would certainly and finally reject all of his claims to authority and divinity. Knowing all this, Jesus long sought to prevent his early followers alluding to him as the Messiah.
2014 136:9.12 Odbijajući ove metode promicanja dolazećeg kraljevstva u očima iščekujućih Židova, Isus se osigurao da će ti isti Židovi sigurno i potpuno odbaciti sve njegove tvrdnje da ima vlast ili da dolazi od Boga. Znajući sve ovo, Isus je pokušavao spriječiti svoje rane sljedbenike da ga nazivaju Mesijom.
1955 136:9.13 Throughout his public ministry he was confronted with the necessity of dealing with three constantly recurring situations: the clamor to be fed, the insistence on miracles, and the final request that he allow his followers to make him king. But Jesus never departed from the decisions which he made during these days of his isolation in the Perean hills.
2014 136:9.13 Tijekom svojeg javnog djelovanja Isus je bio suočen s nužnošću rješavanja triju situacija koje su se stalno ponavljale: zahtijevanje da ih se nahrani, ustrajno traženje čuda, i krajnji zahtjev da dopusti svojim sljedbenicima da ga učine kraljem. Ali Isus se nikad nije udaljio od odluka koje je donio tijekom dana svoje osame u Perejskim brdima.
¶ 10. ŠESTA ODLUKA
10. THE SIXTH DECISION
10. ŠESTA ODLUKA
1955 136:10.1 On the last day of this memorable isolation, before starting down the mountain to join John and his disciples, the Son of Man made his final decision. And this decision he communicated to the Personalized Adjuster in these words, “And in all other matters, as in these now of decision-record, I pledge you I will be subject to the will of my Father.” And when he had thus spoken, he journeyed down the mountain. And his face shone with the glory of spiritual victory and moral achievement.
2014 136:10.1 Posljednjega dana svoje nezaboravne osame, prije nego što će se početi spuštati kako bi se pridružio Ivanu i njegovim učenicima, Sin je Čovječji donio svoju posljednju odluku. I tu je odluku svojem Personaliziranom Ispravljaču rekao ovim riječima: "I u svim drugim stvarima, kao i u ovima koji su sada zabilježene kao odluke, svečano se obvezujem da ću uvijek slijediti volju svojega Oca[44]." I kad je tako rekao, krenuo je na put niz brdo. A lice mu je sjalo slavom duhovne pobjede i moralnoga postignuća.
¶ Reference
¶ Biblija
- ↑ 136:0.1 Ljudi koji očekuju Mesiju: Lk 3:15; Iv 1:25.
- ↑ 136:0.1 Ivan, najveći prorok: Mt 11:11; Lk 7:28.
- ↑ 136:0.2 Poruka Evanđelja: Lk 8:1.
- ↑ 136:1.1 Sluga Gospodnji: Iz 42:1; Iz 53:11; Ez 34:22-31. Sin Čovječji: Ez 2:1,3,6,8; Ez 3:1-4,10,17; Mt 8:20; Dn 7:13,14; Mk 2:10; Lk 5:24; Iv 1:51; Otk 1:13; Otk 14:14; 1 Hen 46:1-6; 1 Hen 48:1-7; 1 Hen 60:10; 1 Hen 62:1-14; 1 Hen 63:11; 1 Hen 69:26-29; 1 Hen 70:1-2; 1 Hen 71:14-16. Abrahamovo potomstvo: Post 18:18; Dj 3:25; Rim 4:13. Sin Davidov: Mt 1:1; 2 Sam 7:12-13. Mesija: Dn 9:25-26; Iv 1:41; Iv 4:25-26. Pomazanik: Iz 61:1; Lk 4:18; Dj 10:38. Isus, Sin Božji: Mt 8:29; Mt 14:33; Mt 16:15-16; Mt 27:54; Mk 1:1; Mk 3:11; Mk 15:39; Lk 1:35; Lk 4:41; Iv 1:34,49; Iv 3:16-18; Iv 10:36; Iv 20:31; Dj 8:37.
- ↑ 136:1.4 Bog se pokajao što je stvorio čovjeka: Post 6:6.
- ↑ 136:1.5 Pokajte se i krstite se: Mt 3:2.
- ↑ 136:1.6 Mesija kao sin Davidov: 2 Sam 7:12-13.
- ↑ 136:1.6 Mesija kao Sin Čovječji: Dn 7:13-14.
- ↑ 136:1.6 Bog se objavio kad je postao tijelom: Iv 1:1-5.
- ↑ 136:2.1 Isusovo krštenje: Mt 3:13-17; Mk 1:9; Lk 3:21.
- ↑ 136:2.1 Kraljevstvo Božje na dohvat ruke: Dn 2:44; Mt 3:2.
- ↑ 136:2.1 Osjećali su se krivom nacijom: Dn 9:11.
- ↑ 136:2.3 Personalizirani procjenitelj: Mt 3:16-17; Mk 1:10-11; Lk 3:22; Iv 1:32-33.
- ↑ 136:2.3 Ovo je moj voljeni sin: Mt 3:17; Mk 1:11; Lk 3:22.
- ↑ 136:2.4 Isusova molitva: Mt 6:9-10; Lk 11:2.
- ↑ 136:2.4 Nebesa su se otvorila: Mt 3:16; Mk 1:10; Lk 3:21.
- ↑ 136:2.5 Glas personaliziranog procjenitelja: Mt 3:17; Mk 1:11; Lk 3:22.
- ↑ 136:2.8 Kronologija događaja: Lk 3:1.
- ↑ 136:3.1 „Četrdeset dana“: Mt 4:1-11; Mk 1:12-13; Lk 4:1-13.
- ↑ 136:4.3 Isus nije „postio“ kao takav: Mt 4:2; Mk 1:13; Lk 4:2.
- ↑ 136:4.3 „Iskušenje“ je bilo ranije: Mt 4:3-11; Mk 1:12-13; Lk 4:13.
- ↑ 136:4.4 Ne moja volja, nego tvoja neka bude: Mt 26:39,42,44; Mk 14:36,39; Lk 22:42; Iv 4:34; Iv 5:30; Iv 6:38-40; Iv 15:10; Iv 17:4.
- ↑ 136:4.5 Razlog za ideju o „četrdeset dana“: Mt 4:1-11; Mk 1:12-13; Lk 4:1-13.
- ↑ 136:4.10 Donošenje odluka: Mt 4:1; Mk 1:12-13; Lk 4:1-2.
- ↑ 136:5.1 Dvanaest legija anđela i drugih: Mt 26:53.
- ↑ 136:6.1 Takozvano „iskušenje“ da se dobije hrana: Mt 4:3; Lk 4:3.
- ↑ 136:6.4 Čovjek ne živi samo o kruhu: Pnz 8:3; Mt 4:3-4; Lk 4:3-4.
- ↑ 136:6.5 Spasavao je druge, ne sebe: Mt 27:42a; Mk 15:31; Lk 23:35a.
- ↑ 136:6.7 Zemlja će dati plodove: Iz 4:2; Iz 5:10; 1 Hen 10:18-20a.
- ↑ 136:7.1 Takozvano „iskušenje“ skoka: Mt 4:5-6; Lk 4:9-11.
- ↑ 136:7.2 Ništa te neće snaći: Ps 91:10-12.
- ↑ 136:7.3 Isus nikada nije hodao po vodi: Mt 14:25-27; Mk 6:48-50; Iv 6:19-21.
- ↑ 136:7.3 Nema nadnaravnog znaka: Mt 12:38; Mt 16:1; Mk 8:11.
- ↑ 136:7.4 Čak i kad promatrači usuđuju Isusa: Mt 27:39-44; Mk 15:29-32; Lk 23:35-37.
- ↑ 136:8.1 Ne govori nikome o skraćivanju vremena: Mt 8:4; Mt 9:30; Mt 12:16; Mk 1:44; Mk 5:43; Mk 7:36; Mk 8:26; Lk 5:14; Lk 8:56.
- ↑ 136:8.1 Isus je odbio pokazati znak.: Mt 12:38-39; Mt 16:1-4; Mk 8:11-12; Lk 11:16,29-30; Iv 2:18-20; Iv 6:30.
- ↑ 136:8.3 Isus odlučuje živjeti Očevu volju: Mt 26:39,42,44; Mk 14:36,39; Lk 22:42; Iv 4:34; Iv 5:30; Iv 6:38-40; Iv 15:10; Iv 17:4.
- ↑ 136:8.5 Odlučuje da neće napustiti hram: Mt 4:5-6; Lk 4:9-11.
- ↑ 136:8.6 Uđite u kraljevstvo kroz nevolju: Dj 14:22.
- ↑ 136:9.3 Služi samo Gospodinu Bogu: Izl 20:3-5a; Pnz 5:7-9a; Pnz 6:13-14; Pnz 10:20; Mt 4:10; Lk 4:8.
- ↑ 136:9.4 Popij gorku čašu: Mt 20:22-23; Mt 26:39,42; Mk 10:38-39; Mk 14:36; Lk 22:42; Iv 18:11.
- ↑ 136:9.6 „Iskušenje“ za kontrolu kraljevstava: Mt 4:8; Lk 4:5.
- ↑ 136:9.7 Ti si moj Sin, danas...: Ps 2:7-9; Dj 13:33.
- ↑ 136:10.1 Zavjetujem se da ću živjeti po očevoj volji: Mt 26:39,42,44; Mk 14:36,39; Lk 22:42; Iv 4:34; Iv 5:30; Iv 6:38-40; Iv 15:10; Iv 17:4.