id stringlengths 5 9 | embedding list | metadata dict | document stringlengths 10 2.88k |
|---|---|---|---|
121:8.14 | [
-0.018681969493627548,
-0.027763480320572853,
-0.020607521757483482,
-0.022505763918161392,
-0.024226471781730652,
0.01507667638361454,
-0.006510693579912186,
0.0006986107327975333,
-0.009504861198365688,
-0.006299018859863281,
-0.012720946222543716,
0.006852103862911463,
-0.0004745602491311... | {
"Paper": 121,
"Paragraph": 14,
"Section": 8,
"Standard Reference": "121:8.14"
} | While I, with the collaboration of my eleven associate fellow midwayers and under the supervision of the Melchizedek of record, have portrayed this narrative in accordance with my concept of its effective arrangement and in response to my choice of immediate expression, nevertheless, the majority of the ideas and even ... |
122:0.1 | [
0.005829754751175642,
-0.013387090526521206,
-0.011826264671981335,
-0.013233676552772522,
-0.030229344964027405,
0.024452952668070793,
-0.022438552230596542,
-0.016355330124497414,
-0.024919865652918816,
-0.0005757216131314635,
-0.014501014724373817,
0.011859615333378315,
0.0060131852515041... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 0,
"Standard Reference": "122:0.1"
} | IT WILL hardly be possible fully to explain the many reasons which led to the selection of Palestine as the land for Michael’s bestowal, and especially as to just why the family of Joseph and Mary should have been chosen as the immediate setting for the appearance of this Son of God on Urantia. |
122:0.2 | [
0.007577209267765284,
-0.015181431546807289,
-0.025797627866268158,
-0.027350889518857002,
0.009191249497234821,
0.024365928024053574,
-0.015924295410513878,
-0.003791981376707554,
-0.03025481104850769,
-0.005095369182527065,
-0.018193406984210014,
0.0031217157375067472,
0.005108876153826713... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 0,
"Standard Reference": "122:0.2"
} | After a study of the special report on the status of segregated worlds prepared by the Melchizedeks, in counsel with Gabriel, Michael finally chose Urantia as the planet whereon to enact his final bestowal. Subsequent to this decision Gabriel made a personal visit to Urantia, and, as a result of his study of human grou... |
122:0.3 | [
-0.013382263481616974,
-0.011069600470364094,
-0.025231413543224335,
-0.020203320309519768,
-0.01062785554677248,
0.013460218906402588,
-0.003365054726600647,
-0.006616424769163132,
-0.03806799277663231,
-0.0224899984896183,
0.001413745223544538,
0.018995018675923347,
-0.00034348893677815795... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 0,
"Standard Reference": "122:0.3"
} | From the three couples nominated, Gabriel made the personal choice of Joseph and Mary, subsequently making his personal appearance to Mary, at which time he imparted to her the glad tidings that she had been selected to become the earth mother of the bestowal child. |
122:1.1 | [
-0.002655623247846961,
-0.006788376718759537,
-0.02452036179602146,
-0.011547304689884186,
-0.02527819387614727,
0.007135181222110987,
0.006306703668087721,
-0.0013125586556270719,
0.0007453887956216931,
-0.007893012836575508,
-0.018560461699962616,
0.021810147911310196,
-0.01594016142189502... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 1,
"Standard Reference": "122:1.1"
} | Joseph, the human father of Jesus (Joshua ben Joseph), was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, albeit he carried many non-Jewish racial strains which had been added to his ancestral tree from time to time by the female lines of his progenitors. The ancestry of the father of Jesus went back to the days of Abraham and through this ... |
122:1.2 | [
-0.0170133113861084,
-0.01534050889313221,
-0.019905056804418564,
-0.007002430036664009,
-0.011476204730570316,
-0.00509297102689743,
-0.012156996876001358,
-0.017804326489567757,
-0.021577859297394753,
-0.0346749946475029,
-0.01502928975969553,
0.023691555485129356,
-0.005809423513710499,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 1,
"Standard Reference": "122:1.2"
} | Mary, the earth mother of Jesus, was a descendant of a long line of unique ancestors embracing many of the most remarkable women in the racial history of Urantia. Although Mary was an average woman of her day and generation, possessing a fairly normal temperament, she reckoned among her ancestors such well-known women ... |
122:1.3 | [
-0.026946309953927994,
-0.015048962086439133,
-0.017977338284254074,
-0.02836453728377819,
-0.026145273819565773,
0.013473154976963997,
0.003187727415934205,
-0.0070123434998095036,
-0.04115484282374382,
-0.02586950734257698,
-0.01586312986910343,
0.02337447926402092,
0.005055715795606375,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 1,
"Standard Reference": "122:1.3"
} | Of all couples living in Palestine at about the time of Michael’s projected bestowal, Joseph and Mary possessed the most ideal combination of widespread racial connections and superior average of personality endowments. It was the plan of Michael to appear on earth as an average man, that the common people might unders... |
122:2.1 | [
0.01326647400856018,
-0.018214162439107895,
-0.029609231278300285,
-0.015304511412978172,
0.0019098594784736633,
0.008434144780039787,
0.0009284929255954921,
0.0061301360838115215,
-0.02771218866109848,
-0.01771426759660244,
-0.016560660675168037,
0.024059101939201355,
0.003653086954727769,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 2,
"Standard Reference": "122:2.1"
} | Jesus’ lifework on Urantia was really begun by John the Baptist. Zacharias, John’s father, belonged to the Jewish priesthood, while his mother, Elizabeth, was a member of the more prosperous branch of the same large family group to which Mary the mother of Jesus also belonged. Zacharias and Elizabeth, though they had b... |
122:2.2 | [
-0.037422649562358856,
-0.02484174631536007,
-0.0141073539853096,
-0.024373963475227356,
0.0142304552718997,
0.0012248532148078084,
-0.018280472606420517,
-0.01247011311352253,
-0.016113897785544395,
-0.014513586647808552,
0.0185512937605381,
0.006013474892824888,
-0.029593437910079956,
-0... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 2,
"Standard Reference": "122:2.2"
} | It was late in the month of June, 8 B.C., about three months after the marriage of Joseph and Mary, that Gabriel appeared to Elizabeth at noontide one day, just as he later made his presence known to Mary. Said Gabriel: |
122:2.3 | [
-0.01033547893166542,
-0.022261030972003937,
-0.04069594666361809,
-0.01960262656211853,
-0.0019472191343083978,
0.01642248034477234,
-0.027304546907544136,
-0.0050652544014155865,
-0.026111992076039314,
-0.00398760661482811,
0.014198861084878445,
0.012118100188672543,
-0.01653428189456463,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 2,
"Standard Reference": "122:2.3"
} | “While your husband, Zacharias, stands before the altar in Jerusalem, and while the assembled people pray for the coming of a deliverer, I, Gabriel, have come to announce that you will shortly bear a son who shall be the forerunner of this divine teacher, and you shall call your son John. He will grow up dedicated to t... |
122:2.4 | [
-0.023838378489017487,
-0.024129552766680717,
-0.010165808722376823,
-0.02107854373753071,
0.01272941567003727,
0.015786753967404366,
-0.011153272353112698,
-0.00976069550961256,
-0.019989803433418274,
-0.009754365310072899,
0.005671584513038397,
0.017976896837353706,
-0.012938302010297775,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 4,
"Section": 2,
"Standard Reference": "122:2.4"
} | This vision greatly frightened Elizabeth. After Gabriel’s departure she turned this experience over in her mind, long pondering the sayings of the majestic visitor, but did not speak of the revelation to anyone save her husband until her subsequent visit with Mary in early February of the following year. |
122:2.5 | [
-0.007459756452590227,
-0.017855122685432434,
-0.021121149882674217,
-0.04526686668395996,
0.006919654551893473,
-0.0003965378273278475,
-0.022811349481344223,
-0.0011222993489354849,
-0.04031064361333847,
-0.0014376234030351043,
0.008203189820051193,
0.016990961506962776,
-0.023078223690390... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 5,
"Section": 2,
"Standard Reference": "122:2.5"
} | For five months, however, Elizabeth withheld her secret even from her husband. Upon her disclosure of the story of Gabriel’s visit, Zacharias was very skeptical and for weeks doubted the entire experience, only consenting halfheartedly to believe in Gabriel’s visit to his wife when he could no longer question that she ... |
122:2.6 | [
-0.012240366078913212,
-0.03608490526676178,
-0.024849724024534225,
-0.009981878101825714,
0.010007326491177082,
0.005359931383281946,
-0.023119278252124786,
-0.005795724224299192,
-0.042624976485967636,
-0.03435445576906204,
0.0004946405533701181,
0.005722561851143837,
-0.02722908928990364,... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 6,
"Section": 2,
"Standard Reference": "122:2.6"
} | Gabriel appeared to Mary about the middle of November, 8 B.C., while she was at work in her Nazareth home. Later on, after Mary knew without doubt that she was to become a mother, she persuaded Joseph to let her journey to the City of Judah, four miles west of Jerusalem, in the hills, to visit Elizabeth. Gabriel had in... |
122:2.7 | [
-0.0042864056304097176,
-0.020419660955667496,
-0.03424201160669327,
-0.034389711916446686,
-0.003892536275088787,
0.004147936124354601,
-0.00923131126910448,
0.012800752185285091,
-0.038426872342824936,
-0.012425345368683338,
-0.0035355922300368547,
0.005668025463819504,
-0.0158040057867765... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 7,
"Section": 2,
"Standard Reference": "122:2.7"
} | John was born in the City of Judah, March 25, 7 B.C. Zacharias and Elizabeth rejoiced greatly in the realization that a son had come to them as Gabriel had promised, and when on the eighth day they presented the child for circumcision, they formally christened him John, as they had been directed aforetime. Already had ... |
122:2.8 | [
0.0028559088241308928,
-0.0013930294662714005,
-0.014947880990803242,
-0.01677667908370495,
-0.023050470277667046,
0.011899884790182114,
0.00009410886559635401,
-0.0037433202378451824,
-0.024701468646526337,
0.005975342355668545,
-0.013576283119618893,
0.02613656595349312,
-0.013093682937324... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 8,
"Section": 2,
"Standard Reference": "122:2.8"
} | From his earliest infancy John was judiciously impressed by his parents with the idea that he was to grow up to become a spiritual leader and religious teacher. And the soil of John’s heart was ever responsive to the sowing of such suggestive seeds. Even as a child he was found frequently at the temple during the seaso... |
122:3.1 | [
-0.018563255667686462,
-0.019600873813033104,
-0.03846782445907593,
0.0009079165756702423,
-0.0036917722318321466,
0.015830015763640404,
-0.007915007881820202,
-0.016779057681560516,
-0.01777871511876583,
-0.012229983694851398,
0.011768117547035217,
0.013084121979773045,
-0.02119526453316211... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 3,
"Standard Reference": "122:3.1"
} | One evening about sundown, before Joseph had returned home, Gabriel appeared to Mary by the side of a low stone table and, after she had recovered her composure, said: “I come at the bidding of one who is my Master and whom you shall love and nurture. To you, Mary, I bring glad tidings when I announce that the concepti... |
122:3.2 | [
-0.00603846600279212,
-0.01882672682404518,
-0.022875351831316948,
-0.0227750763297081,
-0.00941336341202259,
0.011067910119891167,
-0.012553241103887558,
-0.01812479831278324,
-0.03201295807957649,
-0.005866117309778929,
-0.0008476414368487895,
0.01965400017797947,
-0.02797686867415905,
0... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 3,
"Standard Reference": "122:3.2"
} | Mary pondered this visitation secretly in her heart for many weeks until of a certainty she knew she was with child, before she dared to disclose these unusual events to her husband. When Joseph heard all about this, although he had great confidence in Mary, he was much troubled and could not sleep for many nights. At ... |
122:3.3 | [
0.00015266038826666772,
-0.03212488070130348,
-0.027774110436439514,
-0.0035002208314836025,
-0.02886180393397808,
0.01632804051041603,
-0.012091097421944141,
-0.0013224637368693948,
-0.024245433509349823,
-0.028558261692523956,
0.0055175116285681725,
0.0011414451291784644,
-0.00442349491640... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 3,
"Standard Reference": "122:3.3"
} | Upon her return, Mary went to visit her parents, Joachim and Hannah. Her two brothers and two sisters, as well as her parents, were always very skeptical about the divine mission of Jesus, though, of course, at this time they knew nothing of the Gabriel visitation. But Mary did confide to her sister Salome that she tho... |
122:3.4 | [
-0.022850574925541878,
-0.015784282237291336,
-0.009003623388707638,
-0.01672811061143875,
-0.019894901663064957,
-0.01982039026916027,
-0.011394239962100983,
-0.004747082479298115,
-0.02886126935482025,
-0.017969990149140358,
0.012890703976154327,
0.016690853983163834,
-0.01870269887149334,... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 4,
"Section": 3,
"Standard Reference": "122:3.4"
} | Gabriel’s announcement to Mary was made the day following the conception of Jesus and was the only event of supernatural occurrence connected with her entire experience of carrying and bearing the child of promise. |
122:4.1 | [
-0.01979774609208107,
-0.00850190594792366,
-0.026144150644540787,
-0.010284461081027985,
0.0037010153755545616,
0.01453857496380806,
-0.01772441901266575,
-0.013312277384102345,
-0.03145388886332512,
-0.007635912392288446,
0.006049311254173517,
0.013881178572773933,
-0.019039211794734,
0.... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 4,
"Standard Reference": "122:4.1"
} | Joseph did not become reconciled to the idea that Mary was to become the mother of an extraordinary child until after he had experienced a very impressive dream. In this dream a brilliant celestial messenger appeared to him and, among other things, said: “Joseph, I appear by command of Him who now reigns on high, and I... |
122:4.2 | [
-0.026089003309607506,
-0.02364705316722393,
-0.008266501128673553,
-0.018925117328763008,
-0.009045184589922428,
0.005618978291749954,
0.0036068607587367296,
-0.011997951194643974,
-0.007930110208690166,
0.005151768215000629,
-0.0020728546660393476,
0.037850234657526016,
-0.0067589706741273... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 4,
"Standard Reference": "122:4.2"
} | In all these visitations nothing was said about the house of David. Nothing was ever intimated about Jesus’ becoming a “deliverer of the Jews,” not even that he was to be the long-expected Messiah. Jesus was not such a Messiah as the Jews had anticipated, but he was the world’s deliverer. His mission was to all races a... |
122:4.3 | [
-0.014004601165652275,
-0.009357166476547718,
-0.014876773580908775,
-0.023249631747603416,
-0.03707979992032051,
0.018303167074918747,
-0.02138069085776806,
-0.013095050118863583,
-0.014839394949376583,
-0.0164591446518898,
-0.01739361509680748,
0.031772006303071976,
0.020545896142721176,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 4,
"Standard Reference": "122:4.3"
} | Joseph was not of the line of King David. Mary had more of the Davidic ancestry than Joseph. True, Joseph did go to the City of David, Bethlehem, to be registered for the Roman census, but that was because, six generations previously, Joseph’s paternal ancestor of that generation, being an orphan, was adopted by one Za... |
122:4.4 | [
-0.014325480908155441,
-0.03242883086204529,
-0.03235276788473129,
-0.01297533605247736,
-0.018432963639497757,
0.005505168344825506,
-0.0031772777438163757,
-0.0035591847263276577,
-0.005311837885528803,
-0.0004900614148937166,
0.0005364132230170071,
0.022565802559256554,
0.0030203945934772... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 4,
"Section": 4,
"Standard Reference": "122:4.4"
} | Most of the so-called Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament were made to apply to Jesus long after his life had been lived on earth. For centuries the Hebrew prophets had proclaimed the coming of a deliverer, and these promises had been construed by successive generations as referring to a new Jewish ruler who woul... |
122:5.1 | [
-0.01273760013282299,
-0.016953522339463234,
0.01584981009364128,
-0.021573709324002266,
-0.024782173335552216,
0.019019771367311478,
-0.0005979774286970496,
0.007905654609203339,
-0.005717481952160597,
-0.028978843241930008,
-0.018044399097561836,
0.023485952988266945,
-0.005281131248921156... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 5,
"Standard Reference": "122:5.1"
} | Joseph was a mild-mannered man, extremely conscientious, and in every way faithful to the religious conventions and practices of his people. He talked little but thought much. The sorry plight of the Jewish people caused Joseph much sadness. As a youth, among his eight brothers and sisters, he had been more cheerful, b... |
122:5.2 | [
-0.01861986704170704,
-0.007519561797380447,
0.002065321896225214,
-0.03736761957406998,
-0.02936209738254547,
0.01227683573961258,
-0.006058490369468927,
0.00867051538079977,
-0.026420772075653076,
-0.025461645796895027,
-0.0017759848851710558,
0.03048747405409813,
-0.0121297687292099,
0.... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 5,
"Standard Reference": "122:5.2"
} | Mary’s temperament was quite opposite to that of her husband. She was usually cheerful, was very rarely downcast, and possessed an ever-sunny disposition. Mary indulged in free and frequent expression of her emotional feelings and was never observed to be sorrowful until after the sudden death of Joseph. And she had ha... |
122:5.3 | [
0.002354088006541133,
-0.015790201723575592,
-0.012490948662161827,
-0.02942369319498539,
-0.03250470757484436,
0.0034725607838481665,
0.010892671532928944,
0.011637250892817974,
-0.024519745260477066,
-0.030887175351381302,
-0.01525102462619543,
0.023056263104081154,
-0.0013487464748322964,... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 5,
"Standard Reference": "122:5.3"
} | Jesus derived much of his unusual gentleness and marvelous sympathetic understanding of human nature from his father; he inherited his gift as a great teacher and his tremendous capacity for righteous indignation from his mother. In emotional reactions to his adult-life environment, Jesus was at one time like his fathe... |
122:5.4 | [
-0.004226332530379295,
-0.016760163009166718,
-0.0012190708657726645,
-0.017354026436805725,
-0.02288356050848961,
0.010445408523082733,
0.01186408381909132,
-0.0036885554436594248,
-0.01635105535387993,
-0.02217092365026474,
-0.009343460202217102,
0.023965712636709213,
-0.001862423610873520... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 4,
"Section": 5,
"Standard Reference": "122:5.4"
} | From Joseph Jesus secured his strict training in the usages of the Jewish ceremonials and his unusual acquaintance with the Hebrew scriptures; from Mary he derived a broader viewpoint of religious life and a more liberal concept of personal spiritual freedom. |
122:5.5 | [
-0.018937652930617332,
-0.009767568670213223,
-0.002295768354088068,
-0.021041836589574814,
-0.027562208473682404,
0.018963631242513657,
0.01787257194519043,
0.0028315559029579163,
-0.00688405754044652,
-0.04133032262325287,
-0.01148858293890953,
0.03592698648571968,
-0.01598919741809368,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 5,
"Section": 5,
"Standard Reference": "122:5.5"
} | The families of both Joseph and Mary were well educated for their time. Joseph and Mary were educated far above the average for their day and station in life. He was a thinker; she was a planner, expert in adaptation and practical in immediate execution. Joseph was a black-eyed brunet; Mary, a brown-eyed well-nigh blon... |
122:5.6 | [
-0.02712487429380417,
-0.01989583857357502,
-0.028097273781895638,
-0.008009514771401882,
-0.0058312080800533295,
0.01897461712360382,
-0.0030099654104560614,
-0.005028337240219116,
-0.025615092366933823,
-0.007664056029170752,
0.002774861641228199,
0.01377994753420353,
-0.013895099982619286... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 6,
"Section": 5,
"Standard Reference": "122:5.6"
} | Had Joseph lived, he undoubtedly would have become a firm believer in the divine mission of his eldest son. Mary alternated between believing and doubting, being greatly influenced by the position taken by her other children and by her friends and relatives, but always was she steadied in her final attitude by the memo... |
122:5.7 | [
-0.022345315665006638,
0.012627162039279938,
-0.019474919885396957,
-0.011365733109414577,
-0.0238513071089983,
0.007581446319818497,
0.00130165321752429,
0.013759873807430267,
0.00014963380817789584,
-0.054473139345645905,
0.002065911889076233,
0.02248690463602543,
-0.013772745616734028,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 7,
"Section": 5,
"Standard Reference": "122:5.7"
} | Mary was an expert weaver and more than averagely skilled in most of the household arts of that day; she was a good housekeeper and a superior homemaker. Both Joseph and Mary were good teachers, and they saw to it that their children were well versed in the learning of that day. |
122:5.8 | [
-0.006130852270871401,
-0.024548470973968506,
-0.005046910140663385,
-0.02301967330276966,
-0.023821664974093437,
0.007988590747117996,
0.010225396603345871,
-0.002691058674827218,
-0.008608881384134293,
-0.0207891333848238,
0.007512408308684826,
0.027969468384981155,
-0.015513530932366848,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 8,
"Section": 5,
"Standard Reference": "122:5.8"
} | When Joseph was a young man, he was employed by Mary’s father in the work of building an addition to his house, and it was when Mary brought Joseph a cup of water, during a noontime meal, that the courtship of the pair who were destined to become the parents of Jesus really began. |
122:5.9 | [
-0.005266703199595213,
-0.03311040997505188,
-0.008170182816684246,
-0.004600072279572487,
-0.028813637793064117,
0.007355060428380966,
0.003107260214164853,
-0.008707279339432716,
-0.013850766234099865,
-0.03376756235957146,
-0.007917432114481926,
0.020523399114608765,
0.0003635273315012455... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 9,
"Section": 5,
"Standard Reference": "122:5.9"
} | Joseph and Mary were married, in accordance with Jewish custom, at Mary’s home in the environs of Nazareth when Joseph was twenty-one years old. This marriage concluded a normal courtship of almost two years’ duration. Shortly thereafter they moved into their new home in Nazareth, which had been built by Joseph with th... |
122:5.10 | [
-0.019236428663134575,
-0.01905936747789383,
-0.015758441761136055,
-0.012109717354178429,
-0.025104740634560585,
0.01716228388249874,
0.014417835511267185,
0.00072010129224509,
-0.008543199859559536,
-0.026129165664315224,
-0.004957711789757013,
0.03085922636091709,
-0.01674492470920086,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 10,
"Section": 5,
"Standard Reference": "122:5.10"
} | The larger part of Joseph’s family became believers in the teachings of Jesus, but very few of Mary’s people ever believed in him until after he departed from this world. Joseph leaned more toward the spiritual concept of the expected Messiah, but Mary and her family, especially her father, held to the idea of the Mess... |
122:5.11 | [
-0.017133796587586403,
-0.01030090544372797,
-0.0072583346627652645,
-0.01639893837273121,
-0.02016347460448742,
0.0211303923279047,
-0.002246473915874958,
0.005292267072945833,
-0.014877652749419212,
-0.026119692251086235,
-0.0096369544044137,
0.02813088148832321,
-0.0017275610007345676,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 11,
"Section": 5,
"Standard Reference": "122:5.11"
} | Joseph held vigorously to the Eastern, or Babylonian, views of the Jewish religion; Mary leaned strongly toward the more liberal and broader Western, or Hellenistic, interpretation of the law and the prophets. |
122:6.1 | [
0.01632360741496086,
-0.007401387672871351,
-0.007990710437297821,
-0.0013346894411370158,
-0.01676718331873417,
0.022166142240166664,
-0.008313886821269989,
-0.020379163324832916,
-0.0022115446627140045,
-0.022989926859736443,
-0.013307289220392704,
0.010905640199780464,
-0.0040872385725378... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 6,
"Standard Reference": "122:6.1"
} | The home of Jesus was not far from the high hill in the northerly part of Nazareth, some distance from the village spring, which was in the eastern section of the town. Jesus’ family dwelt in the outskirts of the city, and this made it all the easier for him subsequently to enjoy frequent strolls in the country and to ... |
122:6.2 | [
0.009326217696070671,
0.007384337950497866,
-0.012027963064610958,
-0.01999031938612461,
-0.036629434674978256,
0.008481922559440136,
0.0051209768280386925,
-0.010638123378157616,
0.005341792479157448,
-0.028628110885620117,
0.0014750816626474261,
0.03182344511151314,
-0.007247951813042164,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 6,
"Standard Reference": "122:6.2"
} | The home of Joseph and Mary was a one-room stone structure with a flat roof and an adjoining building for housing the animals. The furniture consisted of a low stone table, earthenware and stone dishes and pots, a loom, a lampstand, several small stools, and mats for sleeping on the stone floor. In the back yard, near ... |
122:6.3 | [
0.01347924955189228,
0.009536519646644592,
-0.002943839179351926,
-0.031013501808047295,
-0.03304760530591011,
0.013314143754541874,
-0.00010231409396510571,
0.0033879741095006466,
0.0025145637337118387,
-0.011167766526341438,
0.005791916977614164,
0.025492358952760696,
-0.009008180350065231... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 6,
"Standard Reference": "122:6.3"
} | In later years, as the family grew in size, they would all squat about the enlarged stone table to enjoy their meals, helping themselves from a common dish, or pot, of food. During the winter, at the evening meal the table would be lighted by a small, flat clay lamp, which was filled with olive oil. After the birth of ... |
122:7.1 | [
-0.02581840194761753,
-0.014179589226841927,
0.006008681375533342,
-0.049942951649427414,
-0.018452715128660202,
-0.01287712063640356,
-0.013242837972939014,
-0.01177996676415205,
-0.01823456771671772,
-0.028102533891797066,
0.012395912781357765,
0.02267451025545597,
-0.015437145717442036,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 7,
"Standard Reference": "122:7.1"
} | In the month of March, 8 B.C. (the month Joseph and Mary were married), Caesar Augustus decreed that all inhabitants of the Roman Empire should be numbered, that a census should be made which could be used for effecting better taxation. The Jews had always been greatly prejudiced against any attempt to “number the peop... |
122:7.2 | [
-0.012007820419967175,
-0.01904948242008686,
-0.015099127776920795,
-0.025884220376610756,
-0.041083674877882004,
0.02162034623324871,
-0.029997603967785835,
0.003304501995444298,
-0.017030412331223488,
-0.030173175036907196,
0.0003940555907320231,
0.008427420631051064,
0.013857588171958923,... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 7,
"Standard Reference": "122:7.2"
} | It was not necessary that Mary should go to Bethlehem for enrollment—Joseph was authorized to register for his family—but Mary, being an adventurous and aggressive person, insisted on accompanying him. She feared being left alone lest the child be born while Joseph was away, and again, Bethlehem being not far from the ... |
122:7.3 | [
-0.0016283958684653044,
-0.023963147774338722,
-0.00004505625838646665,
-0.002554797800257802,
-0.008226646110415459,
0.0273037850856781,
0.004402669612318277,
-0.01962295174598694,
-0.02214815653860569,
-0.020701425150036812,
0.017781656235456467,
0.033511582762002945,
-0.000083485087088774... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 7,
"Standard Reference": "122:7.3"
} | Joseph virtually forbade Mary to accompany him, but it was of no avail; when the food was packed for the trip of three or four days, she prepared double rations and made ready for the journey. But before they actually set forth, Joseph was reconciled to Mary’s going along, and they cheerfully departed from Nazareth at ... |
122:7.4 | [
-0.0007036407478153706,
-0.010069452226161957,
-0.024804139509797096,
-0.0193420872092247,
-0.03187267482280731,
0.01254344079643488,
-0.013275997713208199,
-0.0028900678735226393,
-0.011438177898526192,
-0.04045773670077324,
0.001345431781373918,
0.03768172860145569,
0.006352044641971588,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 4,
"Section": 7,
"Standard Reference": "122:7.4"
} | Joseph and Mary were poor, and since they had only one beast of burden, Mary, being large with child, rode on the animal with the provisions while Joseph walked, leading the beast. The building and furnishing of a home had been a great drain on Joseph since he had also to contribute to the support of his parents, as hi... |
122:7.5 | [
-0.0061218710616230965,
-0.010618411004543304,
-0.029167426750063896,
-0.004436459392309189,
-0.02240048162639141,
0.03139356151223183,
-0.016190072521567345,
-0.020022565498948097,
-0.011586020700633526,
-0.020971203222870827,
-0.015646187588572502,
0.021919839084148407,
-0.0145837133750319... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 5,
"Section": 7,
"Standard Reference": "122:7.5"
} | Their first day of travel carried them around the foothills of Mount Gilboa, where they camped for the night by the river Jordan and engaged in many speculations as to what sort of a son would be born to them, Joseph adhering to the concept of a spiritual teacher and Mary holding to the idea of a Jewish Messiah, a deli... |
122:7.6 | [
0.0032241567969322205,
-0.005149559583514929,
-0.019831974059343338,
-0.012799221090972424,
-0.021935954689979553,
0.040131498128175735,
-0.0035228701308369637,
-0.021039815619587898,
-0.008565282449126244,
-0.026247818022966385,
0.002129956614226103,
0.01480579562485218,
-0.0047144768759608... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 6,
"Section": 7,
"Standard Reference": "122:7.6"
} | Bright and early the morning of August 19, Joseph and Mary were again on their way. They partook of their noontide meal at the foot of Mount Sartaba, overlooking the Jordan valley, and journeyed on, making Jericho for the night, where they stopped at an inn on the highway in the outskirts of the city. Following the eve... |
122:7.7 | [
0.011876891367137432,
-0.0036666030064225197,
-0.0036567109636962414,
-0.013822301290929317,
-0.036191217601299286,
0.02830406464636326,
-0.01602490060031414,
-0.03054623119533062,
-0.006963907741010189,
-0.0017129498301073909,
0.007082610856741667,
0.024320920929312706,
0.014943385496735573... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 7,
"Section": 7,
"Standard Reference": "122:7.7"
} | The inn was overcrowded, and Joseph accordingly sought lodgings with distant relatives, but every room in Bethlehem was filled to overflowing. On returning to the courtyard of the inn, he was informed that the caravan stables, hewn out of the side of the rock and situated just below the inn, had been cleared of animals... |
122:7.8 | [
-0.01268684957176447,
-0.015254728496074677,
0.0039344485849142075,
-0.007582871243357658,
-0.0177590474486351,
0.023504994809627533,
-0.0013768981443718076,
0.010138038545846939,
-0.005653783679008484,
-0.01702173426747322,
0.008008732460439205,
0.04739135876297951,
0.019704025238752365,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 8,
"Section": 7,
"Standard Reference": "122:7.8"
} | Joseph had thought to go out at once and enroll, but Mary was weary; she was considerably distressed and besought him to remain by her side, which he did. |
122:8.1 | [
-0.00006512158870464191,
-0.016141483560204506,
-0.02016424387693405,
-0.010876585729420185,
-0.01601537875831127,
0.0007586024585179985,
-0.022257592529058456,
-0.004259207751601934,
-0.029659977182745934,
-0.014136409386992455,
-0.00383044988848269,
0.02553633227944374,
-0.0100127644836902... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 8,
"Standard Reference": "122:8.1"
} | All that night Mary was restless so that neither of them slept much. By the break of day the pangs of childbirth were well in evidence, and at noon, August 21, 7 B.C., with the help and kind ministrations of women fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a male child. Jesus of Nazareth was born into the world, was wrapp... |
122:8.2 | [
-0.011252208612859249,
-0.02069016732275486,
-0.016238179057836533,
-0.0017659984296187758,
-0.015363221056759357,
-0.013278763741254807,
-0.011117104440927505,
-0.002422216348350048,
-0.005452399142086506,
-0.00998480711132288,
0.0055649857968091965,
0.012390939518809319,
-0.015723496675491... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 8,
"Standard Reference": "122:8.2"
} | In just the same manner as all babies before that day and since have come into the world, the promised child was born; and on the eighth day, according to the Jewish practice, he was circumcised and formally named Joshua (Jesus). |
122:8.3 | [
0.00438007852062583,
-0.020021364092826843,
-0.019632600247859955,
-0.008675924502313137,
-0.02480316534638405,
0.006327139679342508,
0.0053779068402945995,
-0.004759123548865318,
-0.011196413077414036,
-0.013554916717112064,
-0.006077682599425316,
0.013425328768789768,
0.010671581141650677,... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 8,
"Standard Reference": "122:8.3"
} | The next day after the birth of Jesus, Joseph made his enrollment. Meeting a man they had talked with two nights previously at Jericho, Joseph was taken by him to a well-to-do friend who had a room at the inn, and who said he would gladly exchange quarters with the Nazareth couple. That afternoon they moved up to the i... |
122:8.4 | [
-0.010675223544239998,
-0.025744639337062836,
-0.025314083322882652,
-0.02570664882659912,
-0.014436245895922184,
0.01491745375096798,
-0.0036502175498753786,
0.006429827772080898,
-0.032367583364248276,
-0.005112837068736553,
-0.001182442530989647,
0.006743246223777533,
-0.00434353714808821... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 4,
"Section": 8,
"Standard Reference": "122:8.4"
} | The second day after the birth of Jesus, Mary sent word to Elizabeth that her child had come and received word in return inviting Joseph up to Jerusalem to talk over all their affairs with Zacharias. The following week Joseph went to Jerusalem to confer with Zacharias. Both Zacharias and Elizabeth had become possessed ... |
122:8.5 | [
0.01427206490188837,
-0.021944107487797737,
-0.0326513834297657,
-0.020265040919184685,
0.009189659729599953,
0.013781260699033737,
-0.010016277432441711,
-0.01323879323899746,
-0.01942550763487816,
0.0024201159831136465,
0.011876165866851807,
0.01055874489247799,
-0.02623218484222889,
-0.... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 5,
"Section": 8,
"Standard Reference": "122:8.5"
} | At the noontide birth of Jesus the seraphim of Urantia, assembled under their directors, did sing anthems of glory over the Bethlehem manger, but these utterances of praise were not heard by human ears. No shepherds nor any other mortal creatures came to pay homage to the babe of Bethlehem until the day of the arrival ... |
122:8.6 | [
-0.0006516195717267692,
-0.017976149916648865,
-0.02192862145602703,
-0.024626944214105606,
-0.0159619078040123,
0.009380788542330265,
0.00034105119993910193,
-0.0033190634567290545,
-0.021713262423872948,
-0.004202669020742178,
0.0090640839189291,
0.02261270396411419,
-0.008006290532648563,... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 6,
"Section": 8,
"Standard Reference": "122:8.6"
} | These priests from Mesopotamia had been told sometime before by a strange religious teacher of their country that he had had a dream in which he was informed that “the light of life” was about to appear on earth as a babe and among the Jews. And thither went these three teachers looking for this “light of life.” After ... |
122:8.7 | [
-0.005679649766534567,
-0.0019923546351492405,
-0.0132397236302495,
-0.021298686042428017,
-0.05022140592336655,
0.012203571386635303,
-0.011960523203015327,
0.015324820764362812,
-0.01934150978922844,
-0.027426056563854218,
0.008979986421763897,
0.01105229090899229,
-0.010809242725372314,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 7,
"Section": 8,
"Standard Reference": "122:8.7"
} | These wise men saw no star to guide them to Bethlehem. The beautiful legend of the star of Bethlehem originated in this way: Jesus was born August 21 at noon, 7 B.C. On May 29, 7 B.C., there occurred an extraordinary conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation of Pisces. And it is a remarkable astronomic fac... |
122:9.1 | [
0.005982199218124151,
-0.02025042101740837,
-0.02518073469400406,
-0.018417688086628914,
-0.03138880059123039,
0.013745506294071674,
-0.005982199218124151,
-0.0027216747403144836,
-0.011357788927853107,
-0.008937805891036987,
0.014300488866865635,
0.022793017327785492,
-0.004062345717102289,... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.1"
} | Moses had taught the Jews that every first-born son belonged to the Lord, and that, in lieu of his sacrifice as was the custom among the heathen nations, such a son might live provided his parents would redeem him by the payment of five shekels to any authorized priest. There was also a Mosaic ordinance which directed ... |
122:9.2 | [
0.0180340725928545,
-0.02057335153222084,
-0.013564420863986015,
-0.014328795485198498,
-0.026014667004346848,
0.019070513546466827,
0.007546585518866777,
0.01869480311870575,
-0.020806550979614258,
-0.034668948501348495,
0.004845361225306988,
0.030289985239505768,
0.0014186284970492125,
-... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.2"
} | There lingered constantly about the courts of the temple two remarkable characters, Simeon a singer and Anna a poetess. Simeon was a Judean, but Anna was a Galilean. This couple were frequently in each other’s company, and both were intimates of the priest Zacharias, who had confided the secret of John and Jesus to the... |
122:9.3 | [
-0.0066085574217140675,
-0.023737121373414993,
-0.023852163925766945,
-0.008321413770318031,
-0.02392885833978653,
0.013306592591106892,
0.00474231131374836,
0.002343992702662945,
-0.014917189255356789,
-0.0017016716301441193,
0.028683951124548912,
0.01742256060242653,
-0.015249534510076046,... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.3"
} | Zacharias knew the day Joseph and Mary were expected to appear at the temple with Jesus, and he had prearranged with Simeon and Anna to indicate, by the salute of his upraised hand, which one in the procession of first-born children was Jesus. |
122:9.4 | [
-0.007661976385861635,
-0.02953118085861206,
-0.0437508150935173,
-0.010515830479562283,
-0.02754589170217514,
0.026131372898817062,
-0.013748129829764366,
0.00030477295513264835,
-0.023389192298054695,
-0.015187464654445648,
0.016577167436480522,
0.03888685628771782,
-0.007519283797591925,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 4,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.4"
} | For this occasion Anna had written a poem which Simeon proceeded to sing, much to the astonishment of Joseph, Mary, and all who were assembled in the temple courts. And this was their hymn of the redemption of the first-born son: |
122:9.5 | [
-0.015717564150691032,
-0.02829410694539547,
-0.011267785914242268,
-0.01730053871870041,
-0.03250706195831299,
0.02318371832370758,
-0.015929458662867546,
0.008887091651558876,
-0.007865014486014843,
-0.009959027171134949,
0.017624611034989357,
0.012470596469938755,
-0.013548764400184155,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 5,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.5"
} | Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, |
122:9.6 | [
-0.002460039919242263,
-0.027695389464497566,
0.005775190889835358,
-0.011563144624233246,
-0.005430593620985746,
0.03323446959257126,
-0.013566912151873112,
0.008806368336081505,
0.000778932822868228,
0.012890481390058994,
0.01638750173151493,
0.02579372562468052,
-0.002113847527652979,
-... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 6,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.6"
} | For he has visited us and wrought redemption for his people; |
122:9.7 | [
-0.014200953766703606,
-0.023830456659197807,
0.0021912879310548306,
-0.015007681213319302,
0.003358160611242056,
0.026942117139697075,
-0.015583914704620838,
0.0013373418478295207,
-0.013675941154360771,
0.0010884410003200173,
0.005999230779707432,
0.004004822578281164,
-0.01640344597399234... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 7,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.7"
} | He has raised up a horn of salvation for all of us |
122:9.8 | [
-0.02416321448981762,
-0.015843696892261505,
-0.018431710079312325,
-0.016070937737822533,
-0.007536802440881729,
0.03772188350558281,
0.010863346979022026,
0.0022029681131243706,
0.013811158947646618,
0.001347661018371582,
0.010591921396553516,
0.011519819498062134,
0.02076723612844944,
-... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 8,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.8"
} | In the house of his servant David. |
122:9.9 | [
-0.021076776087284088,
-0.02016492560505867,
0.0013189268065616488,
0.01421184279024601,
0.008590935729444027,
0.02433338388800621,
-0.0199434757232666,
0.0019735051319003105,
-0.012928739190101624,
-0.00011143709707539529,
0.019852289929986,
0.03376452624797821,
-0.00791356060653925,
-0.0... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 9,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.9"
} | Even as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets — |
122:9.10 | [
-0.022853773087263107,
-0.016910258680582047,
-0.00841678399592638,
0.0016408575465902686,
-0.02579357661306858,
0.02305828221142292,
-0.0014051939360797405,
0.008729937486350536,
-0.00245729205198586,
-0.001910872058942914,
0.009247598238289356,
0.017562128603458405,
-0.013280240818858147,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 10,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.10"
} | Salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; |
122:9.11 | [
0.000498345063533634,
-0.005635132547467947,
-0.00962828192859888,
-0.030181819573044777,
-0.004702332895249128,
0.04173320159316063,
-0.0022489416878670454,
0.008574089966714382,
-0.01843876577913761,
-0.010088292881846428,
0.014758680015802383,
0.03378523886203766,
-0.015346471220254898,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 11,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.11"
} | To show mercy to our fathers, and remember his holy covenant — |
122:9.12 | [
0.003109224373474717,
-0.024605097249150276,
-0.0268954299390316,
-0.02019076608121395,
-0.018604164943099022,
0.02539839595556259,
-0.008636734448373318,
0.00015294217155314982,
-0.01833546720445156,
-0.0001283514720853418,
0.01229615043848753,
0.027688730508089066,
0.010261720046401024,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 12,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.12"
} | The oath which he swore to Abraham our father, |
122:9.13 | [
-0.009566676802933216,
-0.0352359414100647,
-0.011464199051260948,
-0.01579951122403145,
-0.019106999039649963,
0.02462826296687126,
-0.008143534883856773,
0.007794337812811136,
-0.00497440854087472,
-0.0029978223610669374,
0.02648625336587429,
0.019792215898633003,
-0.0021478901617228985,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 13,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.13"
} | To grant us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, |
122:9.14 | [
-0.014637130312621593,
-0.01669505052268505,
-0.008735940791666508,
0.0030442913994193077,
0.006405448075383902,
0.02834751456975937,
-0.00925382785499096,
-0.014964217320084572,
-0.014664387330412865,
-0.010936961509287357,
0.021478693932294846,
-0.0045178853906691074,
-0.004190798383206129... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 14,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.14"
} | Should serve him without fear, |
122:9.15 | [
-0.0038946110289543867,
-0.00196156557649374,
-0.0011138777481392026,
-0.011173635721206665,
-0.017695287242531776,
0.024578196927905083,
-0.005206546746194363,
0.010432107374072075,
-0.0031752646900713444,
0.006819530390202999,
0.016034768894314766,
0.013258789665997028,
-0.0096779027953743... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 15,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.15"
} | In holiness and righteousness before him all our days. |
122:9.16 | [
-0.013467980548739433,
-0.0333864800632,
-0.029077734798192978,
-0.018268074840307236,
-0.013997124508023262,
0.024202048778533936,
-0.018041297793388367,
-0.00657650688663125,
-0.01705860160291195,
0.005011121742427349,
0.010771864093840122,
0.022778399288654327,
0.003281953977420926,
-0.... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 16,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.16"
} | Yes, and you, child of promise, shall be called the prophet of the Most High; |
122:9.17 | [
-0.001136588747613132,
-0.00555390864610672,
-0.01667718030512333,
0.004277467727661133,
-0.007157959043979645,
0.04089555889368057,
-0.04626093804836273,
0.005822795908898115,
-0.013796688057482243,
0.02183239348232746,
-0.004935777746140957,
0.012368805706501007,
0.014266467653214931,
-0... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 17,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.17"
} | For you shall go before the face of the Lord to establish his kingdom; |
122:9.18 | [
0.0007147548603825271,
-0.01010456494987011,
0.003484332701191306,
-0.0005102058639749885,
-0.01545550487935543,
0.015007519163191319,
-0.010403222404420376,
-0.013053803704679012,
-0.01376311480998993,
-0.007429094985127449,
0.007105549797415733,
0.02329525351524353,
-0.018018977716565132,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 18,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.18"
} | To give knowledge of salvation to his people |
122:9.19 | [
0.00990243535488844,
-0.02261398173868656,
-0.0030544267501682043,
-0.013077115640044212,
-0.046792857348918915,
0.01197399478405714,
0.005291133187711239,
-0.013583781197667122,
-0.02072841487824917,
0.0013380153104662895,
0.039353203028440475,
0.025718113407492638,
0.0064455620013177395,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 19,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.19"
} | In the remission of their sins. |
122:9.20 | [
0.002625011606141925,
-0.024455804377794266,
-0.00026839517522603273,
-0.03162039443850517,
-0.009816499426960945,
0.0381014347076416,
0.007278513628989458,
-0.004164575599133968,
-0.018405145034193993,
0.004250018857419491,
0.019898822531104088,
0.025835558772087097,
-0.02855708822607994,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 20,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.20"
} | Rejoice in the tender mercy of our God because the dayspring from on high has now visited us |
122:9.21 | [
0.0012889486970379949,
-0.018156535923480988,
-0.0077050840482115746,
-0.008137382566928864,
-0.014749006368219852,
0.024310430511832237,
-0.011373263783752918,
-0.008455249480903149,
-0.006433618254959583,
-0.0053751226514577866,
0.012117071077227592,
0.014571000821888447,
0.002792457351461... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 21,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.21"
} | To shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; |
122:9.22 | [
0.006056327372789383,
-0.007441931404173374,
-0.0017775418236851692,
-0.009009680710732937,
0.007272796705365181,
0.02084261178970337,
-0.0125875324010849,
-0.0031712776981294155,
0.012802204117178917,
0.002309340750798583,
-0.001555552356876433,
0.011956529691815376,
0.010512378998100758,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 22,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.22"
} | To guide our feet into ways of peace. |
122:9.23 | [
-0.005434001795947552,
-0.017429456114768982,
-0.005729362368583679,
-0.00820022914558649,
-0.019512861967086792,
0.03925438970327377,
-0.0185092706233263,
-0.006726601626724005,
-0.022892041131854057,
-0.01145237311720848,
0.022345783188939095,
0.009737375192344189,
-0.0008217696449719369,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 23,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.23"
} | And now let your servant depart in peace, O Lord, according to your word, |
122:9.24 | [
-0.02127431333065033,
-0.02572006732225418,
-0.01140323281288147,
-0.00222444674000144,
-0.0197672788053751,
0.038354046642780304,
-0.004301329609006643,
-0.012112795375287533,
-0.009557114914059639,
0.002778596244752407,
0.00848335213959217,
0.014919648878276348,
-0.013726579025387764,
-0... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 24,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.24"
} | For my eyes have seen your salvation, |
122:9.25 | [
-0.0006402648868970573,
0.0015967304352670908,
0.013561861589550972,
0.010495874099433422,
-0.0012929460499435663,
0.022408856078982353,
-0.037401072680950165,
0.010317079722881317,
-0.013469153083860874,
0.0030759202782064676,
-0.008158307522535324,
0.01704503409564495,
-0.00209420826286077... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 25,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.25"
} | Which you have prepared before the face of all peoples; |
122:9.26 | [
0.0009282600949518383,
-0.016178008168935776,
-0.003632686100900173,
-0.004231995437294245,
-0.006897081155329943,
0.015441427007317543,
0.002198026282712817,
-0.008296586573123932,
-0.0015208733966574073,
-0.015615527518093586,
0.01810651272535324,
0.03597196191549301,
-0.015869982540607452... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 26,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.26"
} | A light for even the unveiling of the gentiles |
122:9.27 | [
0.0002556775289122015,
-0.019185075536370277,
0.009373500011861324,
-0.023720432072877884,
-0.012633288279175758,
0.036102473735809326,
-0.03968437388539314,
0.0018102774629369378,
-0.001982608111575246,
-0.008207449689507484,
-0.014134337194263935,
0.01700758934020996,
0.0000858130297274328... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 27,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.27"
} | And the glory of your people Israel. |
122:9.28 | [
-0.011766769923269749,
-0.02026781626045704,
-0.023520832881331444,
-0.0035992844495922327,
-0.03720637410879135,
0.016875021159648895,
-0.011163182556629181,
0.005082837771624327,
-0.010070372372865677,
-0.024359500035643578,
0.004857286810874939,
0.02289818413555622,
-0.0005178141291253269... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 28,
"Section": 9,
"Standard Reference": "122:9.28"
} | On the way back to Bethlehem, Joseph and Mary were silent—confused and overawed. Mary was much disturbed by the farewell salutation of Anna, the aged poetess, and Joseph was not in harmony with this premature effort to make Jesus out to be the expected Messiah of the Jewish people. |
122:10.1 | [
-0.005370818078517914,
-0.009351387619972229,
-0.03339219093322754,
-0.03323480486869812,
-0.02619175612926483,
0.008393952623009682,
0.00312969833612442,
-0.016446901485323906,
-0.023148948326706886,
-0.025260550901293755,
0.021889854222536087,
0.01173841767013073,
-0.005901997908949852,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 10,
"Standard Reference": "122:10.1"
} | But the watchers for Herod were not inactive. When they reported to him the visit of the priests of Ur to Bethlehem, Herod summoned these Chaldeans to appear before him. He inquired diligently of these wise men about the new “king of the Jews,” but they gave him little satisfaction, explaining that the babe had been bo... |
122:10.2 | [
-0.022212957963347435,
-0.02052425406873226,
-0.009606130421161652,
-0.010469967499375343,
-0.03385202959179878,
0.02108282409608364,
-0.016523322090506554,
-0.012002791278064251,
-0.013587575405836105,
-0.026681529358029366,
0.013808405958116055,
0.0439063124358654,
0.004777085036039352,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 10,
"Standard Reference": "122:10.2"
} | Joseph was afraid to seek work, and their small savings were rapidly disappearing. Even at the time of the purification ceremonies at the temple, Joseph deemed himself sufficiently poor to warrant his offering for Mary two young pigeons as Moses had directed for the purification of mothers among the poor. |
122:10.3 | [
-0.028165176510810852,
0.005216252990067005,
-0.01698194444179535,
-0.022055819630622864,
-0.018548116087913513,
-0.0006665931432507932,
-0.011590953916311264,
-0.0027958080172538757,
-0.015143959783017635,
-0.015195734798908234,
0.015674645081162453,
0.014043757691979408,
-0.000187277066288... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 10,
"Standard Reference": "122:10.3"
} | When, after more than a year of searching, Herod’s spies had not located Jesus, and because of the suspicion that the babe was still concealed in Bethlehem, he prepared an order directing that a systematic search be made of every house in Bethlehem, and that all boy babies under two years of age should be killed. In th... |
122:10.4 | [
-0.00690309377387166,
-0.02320723794400692,
-0.02139637991786003,
-0.024221831932663918,
-0.041380032896995544,
0.00874605868011713,
-0.0016776123084127903,
-0.0024112665560096502,
-0.006870986428111792,
-0.013562170788645744,
0.03493286296725273,
0.01985522359609604,
-0.00887448899447918,
... | {
"Paper": 122,
"Paragraph": 4,
"Section": 10,
"Standard Reference": "122:10.4"
} | The massacre of these infants took place about the middle of October, 6 B.C., when Jesus was a little over one year of age. But there were believers in the coming Messiah even among Herod’s court attachés, and one of these, learning of the order to slaughter the Bethlehem boy babies, communicated with Zacharias, who in... |
123:0.1 | [
0.009922334924340248,
-0.018575457856059074,
-0.016156021505594254,
-0.043787840753793716,
-0.03847301006317139,
0.01467527262866497,
-0.023625865578651428,
0.005311523098498583,
-0.011310536414384842,
-0.02268717810511589,
0.016936058178544044,
0.008990257047116756,
0.0029714121483266354,
... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 0,
"Standard Reference": "123:0.1"
} | OWING to the uncertainties and anxieties of their sojourn in Bethlehem, Mary did not wean the babe until they had arrived safely in Alexandria, where the family was able to settle down to a normal life. They lived with kinsfolk, and Joseph was well able to support his family as he secured work shortly after their arriv... |
123:0.2 | [
0.0007366977515630424,
-0.029841244220733643,
-0.01952827349305153,
-0.020945031195878983,
-0.02859041467308998,
0.0020501497201621532,
0.005497911013662815,
0.01006408128887415,
-0.013044376857578754,
-0.017639264464378357,
0.017039377242326736,
-0.00365038332529366,
-0.0022575578186661005,... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 0,
"Standard Reference": "123:0.2"
} | All through these early years of Jesus’ helpless infancy, Mary maintained one long and constant vigil lest anything befall her child which might jeopardize his welfare or in any way interfere with his future mission on earth; no mother was ever more devoted to her child. In the home where Jesus chanced to be there were... |
123:0.3 | [
0.013489268720149994,
-0.011383211240172386,
-0.01423721481114626,
-0.03201733157038689,
-0.023671830072999,
0.02549576759338379,
-0.009913562797009945,
0.0017173229716718197,
-0.008719474077224731,
-0.007630359847098589,
0.01793757826089859,
0.0069480231031775475,
0.0025226769503206015,
0... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 0,
"Standard Reference": "123:0.3"
} | Throughout the two years of their sojourn at Alexandria, Jesus enjoyed good health and continued to grow normally. Aside from a few friends and relatives no one was told about Jesus’ being a “child of promise.” One of Joseph’s relatives revealed this to a few friends in Memphis, descendants of the distant Ikhnaton, and... |
123:0.4 | [
0.0035417305771261454,
-0.020407114177942276,
-0.024234259501099586,
-0.032563164830207825,
-0.04073638841509819,
0.04117748513817787,
-0.015451285988092422,
0.004261752590537071,
-0.006425062660127878,
-0.015516153536736965,
-0.0010719249257817864,
0.02991659566760063,
0.007699696347117424,... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 4,
"Section": 0,
"Standard Reference": "123:0.4"
} | Joseph and Mary finally took leave of Alexandria on a boat belonging to their friend Ezraeon, bound for Joppa, arriving at that port late in August of the year 4 B.C. They went directly to Bethlehem, where they spent the entire month of September in counsel with their friends and relatives concerning whether they shoul... |
123:0.5 | [
-0.007971425540745258,
-0.012976592406630516,
-0.022447027266025543,
-0.02468283846974373,
-0.03945697098970413,
0.03094564750790596,
-0.01774674467742443,
-0.0007892029243521392,
-0.023209234699606895,
-0.0034045292995870113,
0.002445417456328869,
0.003636367619037628,
0.004751096945255995,... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 5,
"Section": 0,
"Standard Reference": "123:0.5"
} | Mary had never fully given up the idea that Jesus ought to grow up in Bethlehem, the City of David. Joseph did not really believe that their son was to become a kingly deliverer of Israel. Besides, he knew that he himself was not really a descendant of David; that his being reckoned among the offspring of David was due... |
123:0.6 | [
-0.00202039978466928,
-0.021822907030582428,
-0.00796503759920597,
-0.020994024351239204,
-0.03108307160437107,
0.024620383977890015,
-0.014103943482041359,
-0.005811886861920357,
-0.01754898391664028,
-0.02340296283364296,
0.0059802536852657795,
0.015580389648675919,
0.0023474195040762424,
... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 6,
"Section": 0,
"Standard Reference": "123:0.6"
} | By the first of October Joseph had convinced Mary and all their friends that it was best for them to return to Nazareth. Accordingly, early in October, 4 B.C., they departed from Bethlehem for Nazareth, going by way of Lydda and Scythopolis. They started out early one Sunday morning, Mary and the child riding on their ... |
123:1.1 | [
0.005262427963316441,
-0.03485238179564476,
-0.013930710032582283,
-0.02624812163412571,
-0.018488921225070953,
0.014711751602590084,
0.002642417559400201,
-0.018027978017926216,
-0.013482571579515934,
-0.018348077312111855,
0.0065492261201143265,
0.01797676272690296,
-0.008002475835382938,
... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 1,
"Standard Reference": "123:1.1"
} | On the fourth day of the journey the party reached its destination in safety. They arrived unannounced at the Nazareth home, which had been occupied for more than three years by one of Joseph’s married brothers, who was indeed surprised to see them; so quietly had they gone about their business that neither the family ... |
123:1.2 | [
0.017172757536172867,
-0.01829693466424942,
-0.0002897256927099079,
-0.014859798364341259,
-0.0356118306517601,
0.012986171059310436,
-0.007610800676047802,
-0.0034759005066007376,
-0.015492954291403294,
-0.008579918183386326,
0.022431833669543266,
0.019317736849188805,
-0.002942885970696807... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 1,
"Standard Reference": "123:1.2"
} | Jesus was about three years and two months old at the time of their return to Nazareth. He had stood all these travels very well and was in excellent health and full of childish glee and excitement at having premises of his own to run about in and to enjoy. But he greatly missed the association of his Alexandrian playm... |
123:1.3 | [
-0.00045126190525479615,
-0.018702298402786255,
-0.006330201867967844,
-0.014803897589445114,
-0.009702131152153015,
0.01464094128459692,
0.006258124951273203,
0.006198583636432886,
-0.0053556011989712715,
-0.03136270120739937,
0.008116446435451508,
0.010090717114508152,
0.007477159146219492... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 1,
"Standard Reference": "123:1.3"
} | On the way to Nazareth Joseph had persuaded Mary that it would be unwise to spread the word among their Galilean friends and relatives that Jesus was a child of promise. They agreed to refrain from all mention of these matters to anyone. And they were both very faithful in keeping this promise. |
123:1.4 | [
0.010434653609991074,
-0.01756615936756134,
0.01775599643588066,
-0.03120904229581356,
-0.04070084169507027,
0.0012394710211083293,
0.00925134215503931,
-0.002010679803788662,
-0.010675112716853619,
-0.01298478338867426,
-0.004755392204970121,
0.01514891441911459,
-0.000050474631279939786,
... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 4,
"Section": 1,
"Standard Reference": "123:1.4"
} | Jesus’ entire fourth year was a period of normal physical development and of unusual mental activity. Meantime he had formed a very close attachment for a neighbor boy about his own age named Jacob. Jesus and Jacob were always happy in their play, and they grew up to be great friends and loyal companions. |
123:1.5 | [
-0.0066522820852696896,
-0.016614729538559914,
-0.016307994723320007,
-0.020014358684420586,
-0.010460888966917992,
0.01620575040578842,
0.008697171695530415,
0.007776971440762281,
-0.02438531070947647,
-0.017803320661187172,
-0.00919561367481947,
0.020717289298772812,
0.005125004798173904,
... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 5,
"Section": 1,
"Standard Reference": "123:1.5"
} | The next important event in the life of this Nazareth family was the birth of the second child, James, in the early morning hours of April 2, 3 B.C. Jesus was thrilled by the thought of having a baby brother, and he would stand around by the hour just to observe the baby’s early activities. |
123:1.6 | [
-0.0020909246522933245,
-0.009190071374177933,
0.005744628142565489,
-0.019686346873641014,
-0.034574396908283234,
0.012215664610266685,
-0.016913997009396553,
0.002749024424701929,
0.0052514695562422276,
-0.018859973177313805,
0.012915416620671749,
0.024631258100271225,
-0.01782034151256084... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 6,
"Section": 1,
"Standard Reference": "123:1.6"
} | It was midsummer of this same year that Joseph built a small workshop close to the village spring and near the caravan tarrying lot. After this he did very little carpenter work by the day. He had as associates two of his brothers and several other mechanics, whom he sent out to work while he remained at the shop makin... |
123:1.7 | [
0.014987423084676266,
-0.016668496653437614,
-0.011625274084508419,
-0.008534683845937252,
-0.030854176729917526,
0.008961418643593788,
-0.018297845497727394,
-0.013720151036977768,
-0.009284702129662037,
-0.006788953207433224,
0.00931703019887209,
0.010914050973951817,
0.0013529413845390081... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 7,
"Section": 1,
"Standard Reference": "123:1.7"
} | In July of this year, one month before Jesus was four years old, an outbreak of malignant intestinal trouble spread over all Nazareth from contact with the caravan travelers. Mary became so alarmed by the danger of Jesus being exposed to this epidemic of disease that she bundled up both her children and fled to the cou... |
123:2.1 | [
0.0008544474258087575,
-0.023917967453598976,
-0.013087313622236252,
-0.016190219670534134,
-0.03112090937793255,
0.008429673500359058,
0.0049266028217971325,
-0.020336175337433815,
-0.02118898369371891,
0.0006469856016337872,
0.019995054230093956,
0.022855238988995552,
-0.021700667217373848... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 1,
"Section": 2,
"Standard Reference": "123:2.1"
} | In something more than a year after the return to Nazareth the boy Jesus arrived at the age of his first personal and wholehearted moral decision; and there came to abide with him a Thought Adjuster, a divine gift of the Paradise Father, which had aforetime served with Machiventa Melchizedek, thus gaining the experienc... |
123:2.2 | [
0.015354247763752937,
-0.014074726961553097,
-0.044796690344810486,
-0.03407565504312515,
-0.022842811420559883,
0.015488933771848679,
0.000989103107713163,
-0.008680537343025208,
-0.005320112220942974,
0.002013561548665166,
0.019058123230934143,
0.004155075177550316,
-0.0014116816455498338,... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 2,
"Section": 2,
"Standard Reference": "123:2.2"
} | On this day in February the direct and personal supervision of the Universe Rulers, as it was related to the integrity of the childlike incarnation of Michael, terminated. From that time on throughout the human unfolding of the incarnation, the guardianship of Jesus was destined to rest in the keeping of this indwellin... |
123:2.3 | [
-0.005302812438458204,
-0.018173959106206894,
-0.006939713843166828,
-0.03233968839049339,
-0.025007864460349083,
-0.00618039071559906,
-0.005112981889396906,
0.012553724460303783,
-0.01994156278669834,
-0.027584584429860115,
0.005038294475525618,
0.027310729026794434,
-0.013742499984800816,... | {
"Paper": 123,
"Paragraph": 3,
"Section": 2,
"Standard Reference": "123:2.3"
} | Jesus was five years old in August of this year, and we will, therefore, refer to this as his fifth (calendar) year of life. In this year, 2 B.C., a little more than one month before his fifth birthday anniversary, Jesus was made very happy by the coming of his sister Miriam, who was born on the night of July 11. Durin... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.