Ready to Die at Jerusalem
One of the repeated teachings of the Book of Mormon before the Savior came to mortality is that He would come to suffer and die. Lehi prophesied that the Messiah would be slain, and Nephi described how he saw this in vision: “And I, Nephi, saw that he was lifted up upon the cross and slain for the sins of the world” (1 Nephi 10:11, 11:33). Nephi also quoted ancient prophets who spoke of the Savior’s future suffering: “And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men. And the God of our fathers, who were led out of Egypt, out of bondage, and also were preserved in the wilderness by him, yea, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, yieldeth himself, according to the words of the angel, as a man, into the hands of wicked men,...