While Alma and Amulek were in prison, the chief judge continued his assault. It was still a contest for the judge to show that his power was greater than the power of the priesthood which Alma and Amulek claimed to have. However, the judge was probably in the category of the Pharisees who saw Jesus heal the blind man and then asked Jesus if they were blind also. Jesus responded: “If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth” (John 9:41). If the judge had not yet come to see the power of the priesthood in Alma and Amulek, he was about to do so.
One of the beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount, and in the equivalent sermon given to the Nephites in the Americas, teaches that those who are reviled against, persecuted, and all manner of evil said against them were blessed “for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you” (Matthew 5:11–12; 3 Nephi 12:11–12). Alma and Amulek would certainly qualify as two of those prophets who had been persecuted in the Americas. Great shall be their reward.