Search the Words of Isaiah
'You need to search these things. I’m commanding you: study them carefully. Isaiah’s words carry enormous weight.' 'He spoke about everything concerning my people—the house of Israel. So he must also be speaking to the Gentiles.' 'Everything he said has come true and will come true, exactly as he spoke it.' 'So pay attention to my words. Write down what I’ve told you. When the time is right—according to the Father’s will—these words will go out to the Gentiles.' 'Whoever listens to my words, turns from their sins, and is baptized will be saved. Search the prophets—many of them testify about these things.'
A Missing Prophecy
After Jesus finished explaining all the scriptures they had, he said to them: 'There are other scriptures I want you to write down—ones you don’t have yet.' He turned to Nephi: 'Bring me the record you’ve been keeping.' When Nephi brought the records and laid them before him, Jesus looked them over and said:
'I commanded my servant Samuel the Lamanite to tell you that on the day the Father glorified his name in me, many saints would rise from the dead, appear to many people, and minister to them. Didn’t he say that?' His disciples answered: 'Yes, Lord. Samuel prophesied just as you said, and it all happened.' Jesus said to them: 'Then why didn’t you write it down—that many saints rose and appeared to many people and ministered to them?' Nephi suddenly remembered they hadn’t written that down. Jesus commanded them to write it, so they wrote it just as he said.
After Jesus had finished explaining all the scriptures they’d written, he told them to teach the things he’d just explained.
Influences
- 23:1 — Matthew 5:39 (KJV)But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
- 23:2 — Matthew 18:7 (KJV)Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
- 23:4 — John 5:30 (KJV)I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
- 23:5 — Mark 13:13 (KJV)And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
- 23:6 — Luke 24:27 (KJV)And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
- 23:9 — John 21:19 (KJV)This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.
- 23:9 — Ephesians 5:14 (KJV)Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
- 23:10 — Mark 8:4 (KJV)And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?