The Book of Truth 124:1.11-13
The Later Childhood of Yeshua
1. Yeshua’s Ninth Year (A.D. 3)
124:1.11
In May of this year, on his uncle’s farm, Yeshua for the first time helped with the harvest of the grain. Before he was thirteen, he had managed to find out something about practically everything that men and women worked at around Nazareth except metalworking, and he spent several months in a smith’s shop when older, after the death of his father.
124:1.12
When work and caravan travel were slack, Yeshua made many trips with his father on pleasure or business to nearby Cana, Endor, and Nain. Even as a lad he frequently visited Sepphoris, only a little over three miles from Nazareth to the northwest, and from 4 B.C. to about A.D. 25 the capital of Galilee and one of the residences of Herod Antipas.
124:1.13
Yeshua continued to grow physically, intellectually, socially, and spiritually. His trips away from home did much to give him a better and more generous understanding of his own family, and by this time even his parents were beginning to learn from him as well as to teach him. Yeshua was an original thinker and a skilful teacher, even in his youth. He was in constant collision with the so-called “oral law,” but he always sought to adapt himself to the practices of his family. He got along fairly well with the children of his age, but he often grew discouraged with their slow-acting minds. Before he was ten years old, he had become the leader of a group of seven lads who formed themselves into a society for promoting the acquirements of manhood—physical, intellectual, and religious. Among these boys, Yeshua succeeded in introducing many new games and various improved methods of physical recreation.