To Save Your Lives by a Great Deliverance
Certainly Joseph, son of Jacob, was a type of the Savior. One Liahona article describes some of the similarities between Joseph and Jesus. First, Joseph was a shepherd: “Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren” (Genesis 37:2). Jesus, of course, was the Good Shepherd: “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep” (John 10:11). Joseph was sold as a slave into Egypt for twenty pieces of silver by those who should have loved and protected him (Genesis 37:28). Jesus spent time in Egypt as a foreigner as well when He was a child. Later, Judas who was supposed to be His disciple sold Him for 30 pieces of silver, which was the price of a slave (Matthew 26:15). Also, when Joseph was sold by his brothers they tore up his garment as Moroni taught, “we are a remnant of the seed of Joseph, whose coat was rent by his brethren into many pieces” (Alma 46:23). When the Savior was crucified, “they parted his raiment, and cast lots” (Luke 23...