Great and Last Sacrifice
Jacob taught his people about the future coming of the Savior in these words: “Yea, I know that ye know that in the body he shall show himself unto those at Jerusalem, from whence we came; for it is expedient that it should be among them; for it behooveth the great Creator that he suffereth himself to become subject unto man in the flesh, and die for all men, that all men might become subject unto him” (2 Nephi 9:5). His statement invites us to ask this question: Why was it expedient that Christ should come among the people of Jerusalem? Why did He need to be there as opposed to somewhere else on earth? The wicked Nephites much later would ask a similar question: “That it is not reasonable that such a being as a Christ shall come; if so, and he be the Son of God, the Father of heaven and of earth, as it has been spoken, why will he not show himself unto us as well as unto them who shall be at Jerusalem? Yea, why will he not show himself in this land as well as in the land of Jerusalem?...