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P.1743 – §1 Before Jesus took the twelve
for a short sojourn in the vicinity of Caesarea-Philippi, he arranged
through the messengers of David to go over to Capernaum on Sunday, August
7, for the purpose of meeting his family. By prearrangement this visit
was to occur at the Zebedee boatshop. David Zebedee had arranged with
Jude, Jesus’ brother, for the presence of the entire Nazareth family–Mary
and all of Jesus’ brothers and sisters–and Jesus went with Andrew and
Peter to keep this appointment. It was certainly the intention of Mary
and the children to keep this engagement, but it so happened that a group
of the Pharisees, knowing that Jesus was on the opposite side of the lake
in Philip’s domains, decided to call upon Mary to learn what they could
of his whereabouts.

The arrival of these Jerusalem emissaries greatly
perturbed Mary, and noting the tension and nervousness of the entire family,
they concluded that Jesus must have been expected to pay them a visit.
Accordingly they installed themselves in Mary’s home and, after summoning
reinforcements, waited patiently for Jesus’ arrival. And this, of course,
effectively prevented any of the family from attempting to keep their
appointment with Jesus. Several times during the day both Jude and Ruth
endeavored to elude the vigilance of the Pharisees in their efforts to
send word to Jesus, but it was of no avail.

P.1743 – §2 Early in the afternoon David’s messengers
brought Jesus word that the Pharisees were encamped on the doorstep of
his mother’s house, and therefore he made no attempt to visit his family.
And so again, through no fault of either, Jesus and his earth family failed
to make contact.

call upon (방문하다)

emissary, 밀사, emittere = send out

elude < ex + ludere (play), escape, 피하다

1. THE TEMPLE-TAX COLLECTOR – P.1743

P.1743 – §3 As Jesus, with Andrew and Peter, tarried
by the lake near the boatshop, a temple-tax collector came upon them and,
recognizing Jesus, called Peter to one side and said: "Does not your
Master pay the temple tax?" Peter was inclined to show indignation
at the suggestion that Jesus should be expected to contribute to the maintenance
of the religious activities of his sworn enemies, but, noting a peculiar
expression on the face of the tax collector, he rightly surmised that
it was the purpose to entrap them in the act of refusing to pay the customary
half shekel for the support of the temple services at Jerusalem. Accordingly,
Peter replied: "Why of course the Master pays the temple tax. You
wait by the gate, and I will presently return with the tax."

P.1743 – §4 Now Peter had spoken hastily. Judas carried
their funds, and he was across the lake. Neither he, his brother, nor
Jesus had brought along any money. And

P.1744 – §0 knowing that the Pharisees were looking
for them, they could not well go to Bethsaida to obtain money. When Peter
told Jesus about the collector and that he had promised him the money,
Jesus said: "If you have promised, then should you pay. But wherewith
will you redeem your promise? Will you again become a fisherman that you
may honor your word? Nevertheless, Peter, it is well in the circumstances
that we pay the tax. Let us give these men no occasion for offense at
our attitude. We will wait here while you go with the boat and cast for
the fish, and when you have sold them at yonder market, pay the collector
for all three of us."

P.1744 – §1 All of this had been overheard by the
secret messenger of David who stood near by, and who then signaled to
an associate, fishing near the shore, to come in quickly. When Peter made
ready to go out in the boat for a catch, this messenger and his fisherman
friend presented him with several large baskets of fish and assisted him
in carrying them to the fish merchant near by, who purchased the catch,
paying sufficient, with what was added by the messenger of David, to meet
the temple tax for the three. The collector accepted the tax, foregoing
the penalty for tardy payment because they had been for some time absent
from Galilee.

P.1744 – §2 It is not strange that you have a record
of Peter’s catching a fish with a shekel in its mouth. In those days there
were current many stories about finding treasures in the mouths of fishes;
such tales of near miracles were commonplace. So, as Peter left them to
go toward the boat, Jesus remarked, half-humorously: "Strange that
the sons of the king must pay tribute; usually it is the stranger who
is taxed for the upkeep of the court, but it behooves us to afford no
stumbling block for the authorities. Go hence! maybe you will catch the
fish with the shekel in its mouth." Jesus having thus spoken, and
Peter so soon appearing with the temple tax, it is not surprising that
the episode became later expanded into a miracle as recorded by the writer
of Matthew’s Gospel.

P.1744 – §3 Jesus, with Andrew and Peter, waited
by the seashore until nearly sundown. Messengers brought them word that
Mary’s house was still under surveillance; therefore, when it grew dark,
the three waiting men entered their boat and slowly rowed away toward
the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.

2. AT BETHSAIDA-JULIAS – P.1744

P.1744 – §4 On Monday, August 8, while Jesus and
the twelve apostles were encamped in Magadan Park, near Bethsaida-Julias,
more than one hundred believers, the evangelists, the women’s corps, and
others interested in the establishment of the kingdom, came over from
Capernaum for a conference. And many of the Pharisees, learning that Jesus
was here, came also. By this time some of the Sadducees were united with
the Pharisees in their effort to entrap Jesus. Before going into the closed
conference with the believers, Jesus held a public meeting at which the
Pharisees were present, and they heckled the Master and otherwise sought
to disturb the assembly.

Said the leader of the disturbers: "Teacher,
we would like you to give us a sign of your authority to teach, and then,
when the same shall come to pass, all men will know that you have been
sent by God." And Jesus answered them: "When it is evening,
you say it will be fair weather, for the heaven is red; in the morning
it will be foul weather, for the heaven is red and lowering. When you
see a cloud rising in the west, you say showers will come; when the wind
blows from the south, you say scorching heat will come.

P.1745 – §0 How is it that you so well know how to
discern the face of the heavens but are so utterly unable to discern the
signs of the times? To those who would know the truth, already has a sign
been given; but to an evil-minded and hypocritical generation no sign
shall be given."

closed conference, 비공개 회의

heckle, 야유를 퍼붓다

scorch, 타다

would know, 알고 싶어하다.

P.1745 – §1 When Jesus had thus spoken, he withdrew
and prepared for the evening conference with his followers. At this conference
it was decided to undertake a united mission throughout all the cities
and villages of the Decapolis as soon as Jesus and the twelve should return
from their proposed visit to Caesarea-Philippi. The Master participated
in planning for the Decapolis mission and, in dismissing the company,
said: "I say to you, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the
Sadducees. Be not deceived by their show of much learning and by their
profound loyalty to the forms of religion. Be only concerned with the
spirit of living truth and the power of true religion. It is not the fear
of a dead religion that will save you but rather your faith in a living
experience in the spiritual realities of the kingdom. Do not allow yourselves
to become blinded by prejudice and paralyzed by fear.

Neither permit reverence
for the traditions so to pervert your understanding that your eyes see
not and your ears hear not. It is not the purpose of true religion merely
to bring peace but rather to insure progress. And there can be no peace
in the heart or progress in the mind unless you fall wholeheartedly in
love with truth, the ideals of eternal realities. The issues of life and
death are being set before you–the sinful pleasures of time against the
righteous realities of eternity. Even now you should begin to find deliverance
from the bondage of fear and doubt as you enter upon the living of the
new life of faith and hope. And when the feelings of service for your
fellow men arise within your soul, do not stifle them; when the emotions
of love for your neighbor well up within your heart, give expression to
such urges of affection in intelligent ministry to the real needs of your
fellows."

prejudice, 편견

stifle, 질식하게 만들다

pervert < pert (throughly) + vertere (turn), 곡해하다

3. PETER’S CONFESSION – P.1745

P.1745 – §2 Early Tuesday morning Jesus and the twelve
apostles left Magadan Park for Caesarea-Philippi, the capital of the Tetrarch
Philip’s domain. Caesarea-Philippi was situated in a region of wondrous
beauty. It nestled in a charming valley between scenic hills where the
Jordan poured forth from an underground cave. The heights of Mount Hermon
were in full view to the north, while from the hills just to the south
a magnificent view was had of the upper Jordan and the Sea of Galilee.

tetrarch, 4分 군주

upper Jordan, 요단 강 상류

P.1746 – §1 Jesus had spent long months in training
these apostles as to the nature and character of the kingdom of heaven,
and he well knew the time had come when he must begin to teach them more
about his own nature and his personal relationship to the kingdom. And
now, as they were seated under the mulberry trees, the Master made ready
to hold one of the most momentous sessions of his long association with
the chosen apostles.

P.1746 – §2 More than half the apostles participated
in answering Jesus’ question. They told him that he was regarded as a
prophet or as an extraordinary man by all who knew him; that even his
enemies greatly feared him, accounting for his powers by the indictment
that he was in league with the prince of devils. They told him that some
in Judea and Samaria who had not met him personally believed he was John
the Baptist risen from the dead. Peter explained that he had been, at
sundry times and by various persons, compared with Moses, Elijah, Isaiah,
and Jeremiah. When Jesus had listened to this report, he drew himself
upon his feet, and looking down upon the twelve sitting about him in a
semicircle, with startling emphasis he pointed to them with a sweeping
gesture of his hand and asked, "But who say you that I am?"
There was a moment of tense silence. The twelve never took their eyes
off the Master, and then Simon Peter, springing to his feet, exclaimed:
"You are the Deliverer, the Son of the living God." And the
eleven sitting apostles arose to their feet with one accord, thereby indicating
that Peter had spoken for all of them.

indict < in (towards) + dicere (pronounce, speak) 고발

one accord, 일치하여

hence, 그러므로, 여기서부터

P.1746 – §4 And so they resumed their journey to
Caesarea-Philippi, arriving late that evening and stopping at the home
of Celsus, who was expecting them. The apostles slept little that night;
they seemed to sense that a great event in their lives and in the work
of the kingdom had transpired.

P.1746 – §5 Since the occasions of Jesus’ baptism
by John and the turning of the water into wine at Cana, the apostles had,
at various times, virtually accepted him as the Messiah. For short periods
some of them had truly believed that he was the expected Deliverer. But
hardly would such hopes spring up in their hearts than the Master would
dash them to pieces by some crushing word or disappointing deed. They
had long been in a state of turmoil due to conflict between the concepts
of the expected Messiah which they held in their minds and the experience
of their extraordinary association with this extraordinary man which they
held in their hearts.

4. THE TALK ABOUT THE KINGDOM – P.1746

P.1746 – §6 It was late forenoon on this Wednesday
when the apostles assembled in Celsus’ garden for their noontime meal.
During most of the night and since they had arisen that morning, Simon
Peter and Simon Zelotes had been earnestly laboring with their brethren
to bring them all to the point of the wholehearted acceptance of the Master,
not merely as the Messiah, but also as the divine Son of the living God.
The two Simons were well-nigh agreed in their estimate of Jesus, and they
labored diligently to bring their brethren around to the full acceptance
of their views. While Andrew continued as the director-

P.1747 – §0 general of the apostolic corps, his brother,
Simon Peter, was becoming, increasingly and by common consent, the spokesman
for the twelve.

solemnity < solemnitas, 엄숙함

rise to one’s fee, 일어서다

P.1747 – §2 After they had partaken of their meal
and were engaged in discussing plans for the forthcoming tour of the Decapolis,
Jesus suddenly looked up into their faces and said: "Now that a full
day has passed since you assented to Simon Peter’s declaration regarding
the identity of the Son of Man, I would ask if you still hold to your
decision?" On hearing this, the twelve stood upon their feet, and
Simon Peter, stepping a few paces forward toward Jesus, said: "Yes,
Master, we do. We believe that you are the Son of the living God."
And Peter sat down with his brethren.

P.1747 – §3 Jesus, still standing, then said to the
twelve: "You are my chosen ambassadors, but I know that, in the circumstances,
you could not entertain this belief as a result of mere human knowledge.
This is a revelation of the spirit of my Father to your inmost souls.
And when, therefore, you make this confession by the insight of the spirit
of my Father which dwells within you, I am led to declare that upon this
foundation will I build the brotherhood of the kingdom of heaven. Upon
this rock of spiritual reality will I build the living temple of spiritual
fellowship in the eternal realities of my Father’s kingdom. All the forces
of evil and the hosts of sin shall not prevail against this human fraternity
of the divine spirit. And while my Father’s spirit shall ever be the divine
guide and mentor of all who enter the bonds of this spirit fellowship,
to you and your successors I now deliver the keys of the outward kingdom–the
authority over things temporal–the social and economic features of this
association of men and women as fellows of the kingdom." And again
he charged them, for the time being, that they should tell no man that
he was the Son of God.

P.1747 – §4 Jesus was beginning to have faith in
the loyalty and integrity of his apostles. The Master conceived that a
faith which could stand what his chosen representatives had recently passed
through would undoubtedly endure the fiery trials which were just ahead
and emerge from the apparent wreckage of all their hopes into the new
light of a new dispensation and thereby be able to go forth to enlighten
a world sitting in darkness. On this day the Master began to believe in
the faith of his apostles, save one.

P.1747 – §5 And ever since that day this same Jesus
has been building that living temple upon that same eternal foundation
of his divine sonship, and those who thereby become self-conscious sons
of God are the human stones which constitute this living temple of sonship
erecting to the glory and honor of the wisdom and love of the eternal
Father of spirits.

P.1747 – §6 And when Jesus had thus spoken, he directed
the twelve to go apart by themselves in the hills to seek wisdom, strength,
and spiritual guidance until the time of the evening meal. And they did
as the Master admonished them.

integrity, 인품

save one = except one

5. THE NEW CONCEPT – P.1748

P.1748 – §1 The new and vital feature of Peter’s
confession was the clear-cut recognition that Jesus was the Son of God,
of his unquestioned divinity. Ever since his baptism and the wedding at
Cana these apostles had variously regarded him as the Messiah, but it
was not a part of the Jewish concept of the national deliverer that he
should be divine. The Jews had not taught that the Messiah would spring
from divinity; he was to be the "anointed one," but hardly had
they contemplated him as being "the Son of God." In the second
confession more emphasis was placed upon the combined nature, the supernal
fact that he was the Son of Man and the Son of God, and it was upon this
great truth of the union of the human nature with the divine nature that
Jesus declared he would build the kingdom of heaven.

메시아 개념을 지울 수 없으므로, 개량할 생각을 품었다.

6. THE NEXT AFTERNOON – P.1748

P.1748 – §4 Jesus and the apostles remained another
day at the home of Celsus, waiting for messengers to arrive from David
Zebedee with funds. Following the collapse of the popularity of Jesus
with the masses there occurred a great falling off in revenue. When they
reached Caesarea-Philippi, the treasury was empty. Matthew was loath to
leave Jesus and his brethren at such a time, and he had no ready funds
of his own to hand over to Judas as he had so many times done in the past.
However, David Zebedee had foreseen this probable diminution of revenue
and had accordingly instructed his messengers that, as they made their
way through Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, they should act as collectors
of money to be forwarded to the exiled apostles and their Master. And
so, by evening of this day, these messengers arrived from Bethsaida bringing
funds sufficient to sustain the apostles until their return to embark
upon the Decapolis tour. Matthew expected to have money from the sale
of his last piece of property in Capernaum by that time, having arranged
that these funds should be anonymously turned over to Judas.

be loath = dislike, 싫어 하다.

P.1749 – §1 Neither Peter nor the other apostles
had a very adequate conception of Jesus’ divinity. They little realized
that this was the beginning of a new epoch in their Master’s career on
earth, the time when the teacher-healer was becoming the newly conceived
Messiah–the Son of God. From this time on a new note appeared in the
Master’s message. Henceforth his one ideal of living was the revelation
of the Father, while his one idea in teaching was to present to his universe
the personification of that supreme wisdom which can only be comprehended
by living it. He came that we all might have life and have it more abundantly.

new note, 새 음정

henceforth, 이제부터

P.1749 – §2 Jesus now entered upon the fourth and
last stage of his human life in the flesh. The first stage was that of
his childhood, the years when he was only dimly conscious of his origin,
nature, and destiny as a human being. The second stage was the increasingly
self-conscious years of youth and advancing manhood, during which he came
more clearly to comprehend his divine nature and human mission. This second
stage ended with the experiences and revelations associated with his baptism.
The third stage of the Master’s earth experience extended from the baptism
through the years of his ministry as teacher and healer and up to this
momentous hour of Peter’s confession at Caesarea-Philippi.

This third
period of his earth life embraced the times when his apostles and his
immediate followers knew him as the Son of Man and regarded him as the
Messiah. The fourth and last period of his earth career began here at
Caesarea-Philippi and extended on to the crucifixion. This stage of his
ministry was characterized by his acknowledgment of divinity and embraced
the labors of his last year in the flesh. During the fourth period, while
the majority of his followers still regarded him as the Messiah, he became
known to the apostles as the Son of God. Peter’s confession marked the
beginning of the new period of the more complete realization of the truth
of his supreme ministry as a bestowal Son on Urantia and for an entire
universe, and the recognition of that fact, at least hazily, by his chosen
ambassadors.

first stage, 신분을 자각하던 청년기

second stage, 세례받고 난 뒤

third stage, 베드로 예수의 신성을 고백한 기간

fourth stage, 사도들이 예수가 하나님의 아들로 인정한 기간

P.1749 – §3 Thus did Jesus exemplify in his life
what he taught in his religion: the growth of the spiritual nature by
the technique of living progress. He did not place emphasis, as did his
later followers, upon the incessant struggle between the soul and the
body. He rather taught that the spirit was easy victor over both and effective
in the profitable reconciliation of much of this intellectual and instinctual
warfare.

P.1749 – §4 A new significance attaches to all of
Jesus’ teachings from this point on. Before Caesarea-Philippi he presented
the gospel of the kingdom as its master teacher. After Caesarea-Philippi
he appeared not merely as a teacher but as the divine representative of
the eternal Father, who is the center and circumference of this spiritual
kingdom, and it was required that he do all this as a human being, the
Son of Man.

P.1750 – §1 Accordingly, the apostles heard much
that was new as Jesus talked to them this day in the garden. And some
of these pronouncements sounded strange even to them. Among other startling
announcements they listened to such as the following:

P.1750 – §2 "From this time on, if any man would
have fellowship with us, let him assume the obligations of sonship and
follow me. And when I am no more with you, think not that the world will
treat you better than it did your Master. If you love me, prepare to prove
this affection by your willingness to make the supreme sacrifice."

P.1750 – §3 "And mark well my words: I have
not come to call the righteous, but sinners. The Son of Man came not to
be ministered to, but to minister and to bestow his life as the gift for
all. I declare to you that I have come to seek and to save those who are
lost."

P.1750 – §4 "No man in this world now sees the
Father except the Son who came forth from the Father. But if the Son be
lifted up, he will draw all men to himself, and whosoever believes this
truth of the combined nature of the Son shall be endowed with life that
is more than age-abiding."

P.1750 – §5 "We may not yet proclaim openly
that the Son of Man is the Son of God, but it has been revealed to you;
wherefore do I speak boldly to you concerning these mysteries. Though
I stand before you in this physical presence, I came forth from God the
Father. Before Abraham was, I am. I did come forth from the Father into
this world as you have known me, and I declare to you that I must presently
leave this world and return to the work of my Father."

P.1750 – §6 "And now can your faith comprehend
the truth of these declarations in the face of my warning you that the
Son of Man will not meet the expectations of your fathers as they conceived
the Messiah? My kingdom is not of this world. Can you believe the truth
about me in the face of the fact that, though the foxes have holes and
the birds of heaven have nests, I have not where to lay my head?"

P.1750 – §8 "And now have I brought you apart
with me and by yourselves for a little while that you may comprehend the
glory, and grasp the grandeur, of the life to which I have called you:
the faith-adventure of the establishment of my Father’s kingdom in the
hearts of mankind, the building of my fellowship of living association
with the souls of all who believe this gospel."

7. ANDREW’S CONFERENCE – P.1750

P.1750 – §10 That evening Andrew took it upon himself
to hold a personal and searching conference with each of his brethren,
and he had profitable and heartening

P.1751 – §0 talks with all of his associates except
Judas Iscariot. Andrew had never enjoyed such intimate personal association
with Judas as with the other apostles and therefore had not thought it
of serious account that Judas never had freely and confidentially related
himself to the head of the apostolic corps. But Andrew was now so worried
by Judas’s attitude that, later on that night, after all the apostles
were fast asleep, he sought out Jesus and presented his cause for anxiety
to the Master. Said Jesus: "It is not amiss, Andrew, that you have
come to me with this matter, but there is nothing more that we can do;
only go on placing the utmost confidence in this apostle. And say nothing
to his brethren concerning this talk with me."

P.1751 – §1 And that was all Andrew could elicit
from Jesus. Always had there been some strangeness between this Judean
and his Galilean brethren. Judas had been shocked by the death of John
the Baptist, severely hurt by the Master’s rebukes on several occasions,
disappointed when Jesus refused to be made king, humiliated when he fled
from the Pharisees, chagrined when he refused to accept the challenge
of the Pharisees for a sign, bewildered by the refusal of his Master to
resort to manifestations of power, and now, more recently, depressed and
sometimes dejected by an empty treasury. And Judas missed the stimulus
of the multitudes.

elicit < ex + lacere (entice), 끌어내다

chagrin, rough skin, 굴욕을 당하다

deject < de (down) + jacere (throw), 내던지다.

P.1751 – §2 Each of the other apostles was, in some
and varying measure, likewise affected by these selfsame trials and tribulations,
but they loved Jesus. At least they must have loved the Master more than
did Judas, for they went through with him to the bitter end.

P.1751 – §3 Being from Judea, Judas took personal
offense at Jesus’ recent warning to the apostles to "beware the leaven
of the Pharisees"; he was disposed to regard this statement as a
veiled reference to himself. But the great mistake of Judas was: Time
and again, when Jesus would send his apostles off by themselves to pray,
Judas, instead of engaging in sincere communion with the spiritual forces
of the universe, indulged in thoughts of human fear while he persisted
in the entertainment of subtle doubts about the mission of Jesus as well
as giving in to his unfortunate tendency to harbor feelings of revenge.

P.1751 – §4 And now Jesus would take his apostles
along with him to Mount Hermon, where he had appointed to inaugurate his
fourth phase of earth ministry as the Son of God. Some of them were present
at his baptism in the Jordan and had witnessed the beginning of his career
as the Son of Man, and he desired that some of them should also be present
to hear his authority for the assumption of the new and public role of
a Son of God. Accordingly, on the morning of Friday, August 12, Jesus
said to the twelve: "Lay in provisions and prepare yourselves for
a journey to yonder mountain, where the spirit bids me go to be endowed
for the finish of my work on earth. And I would take my brethren along
that they may also be strengthened for the trying times of going with
me through this experience."

provisions, 식량