In the tenth and later Urantia Foundation printings, "short-sighted" was
changed to "shortsighted."
Original Paragraph:
P1702:3, 152:3.2
This mighty shout enthused Peter and those of the apostles who still retained
the hope of seeing Jesus assert his right to rule. But these false hopes were
not to live for long. This mighty shout of the multitude had hardly ceased to
reverberate from the near-by rocks when Jesus stepped upon a huge stone and,
lifting up his right hand to command their attention, said: "My children, you
mean well, but you are short-sighted and material-minded."
There was a brief pause; this stalwart Galilean was there majestically posed
in the enchanting glow of that eastern twilight. Every inch he looked a king
as he continued to speak to this breathless multitude: "You would make me king,
not because your souls have been lighted with a great truth, but because your
stomachs have been filled with bread. How many times have I told you that my
kingdom is not of this world? This kingdom of heaven which we proclaim is a
spiritual brotherhood, and no man rules over it seated upon a material throne.
My Father in heaven is the all-wise and the all-powerful Ruler over this spiritual
brotherhood of the sons of God on earth. Have I so failed in revealing to you
the Father of spirits that you would make a king of his Son in the flesh! Now
all of you go hence to your own homes. If you must have a king, let the Father
of lights be enthroned in the heart of each of you as the spirit Ruler of all
things."