Set 20

Benson

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October 19–25, 2026

Set 20 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Papers 40, 41, 42 and the following paper from Part IV:

Paper 148

Training of the Evangelists at Bethsaida

148:9.1  On Friday afternoon, October 1, when Jesus was holding his last meeting with the apostles, evangelists, and other leaders of the disbanding encampment, and with the six Pharisees from Jerusalem seated in the front row of this assembly in the spacious and enlarged front room of the Zebedee home, there occurred one of the strangest and most unique episodes of all Jesus’ earth life. ...

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Excerpt from Paper 148: section 9, paragraph 1

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Set 19

Hofmann

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Set 19 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Papers 38, 39 and the following two papers from Part IV:

Paper 146

First Preaching Tour of Galilee

Paper 147
The Interlude Visit to Jerusalem

146:6.2  When Jesus sought to leave Cana and go to Nain, a great multitude of believers and many curious people followed after him. They were bent on beholding miracles and wonders, and they were not to be disappointed. As Jesus and his apostles drew near the gate of the city, they met a funeral procession on its way to the near-by cemetery, carrying the only son of a widowed mother of Nain. ...

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Excerpt from Paper 146: section 6, paragraph 2

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Set 18

Waudby

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Set 18 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Papers 36, 37 and the following two papers from Part IV:

Paper 144
At Gilboa and in the Decapolis

Paper 145
Four Eventful Days at Capernaum

144:2.3 “Prayer is the breath of the soul and should lead you to be persistent in your attempt to ascertain the Father’s will. If any one of you has a neighbor, and you go to him at midnight and say: ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine on a journey has come to see me, and I have nothing to set before him’; ...

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Excerpt from Paper 144: section 2, paragraph 3

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Set 17

Copping

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Set 17 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Papers 33, 34, 35 and the following paper from Part IV:

Paper 143

Going through Samaria

143:5.6   Jesus perceived the attempt of the woman’s soul to avoid direct and searching contact with its Maker, but he also saw that there was present in her soul a desire to know the better way of life. ...

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Excerpt from Paper 143: section 5, paragraph 6

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Set 16

Providence

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Set 16 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Paper 32 and the following two papers from Part IV:

Paper 141

Beginning the Public Work

Paper 142
The Passover at Jerusalem

142:6.1  One evening at the home of Flavius there came to see Jesus one Nicodemus, a wealthy and elderly member of the Jewish Sanhedrin. He had heard much about the teachings of this Galilean, and so he went one afternoon to hear him as he taught in the temple courts. He would have gone often to hear Jesus teach, but he feared to be seen by the people in attendance upon his teaching, ...

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Excerpt from Paper 142: section 6, paragraph 1

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Set 15

Tissot

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Set 15 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Papers 30, 31 and the following paper from Part IV:

Paper 140
The Ordination of the Twelve

140:1.3  “The power of this kingdom shall consist, not in the strength of armies nor in the might of riches, but rather in the glory of the divine spirit that shall come to teach the minds and rule the hearts of the reborn citizens of this heavenly kingdom, the sons of God. This is the brotherhood of love wherein righteousness reigns, and whose battle cry shall be: Peace on earth and good will to all men. ...

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Excerpt from Paper 140: section 1, paragraph 3

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Set 14

Standard

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Set 14 of the Double Track Annual Reading of The Urantia Book contains Papers 28, 29 and the following paper from Part IV:

Paper 139
The Twelve Apostles

139:0.2   The apostles learned from Jesus about the kingdom of heaven, and Jesus learned much from them about the kingdom of men, human nature as it lives on Urantia and on the other evolutionary worlds of time and space. ...
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Excerpt from Paper 139: introduction, paragraph 2

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