Why did Jesus retain the physical signs of the Atonement in His resurrected body?

Thomas R. Valletta

“These wounds are the principal way we are to recognize Him when He comes. He may invite us forward, as He has invited others, to see and to feel those marks. If not before, then surely at that time, we will remember with Isaiah that it was for us that a God was ‘despised and rejected … ; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief,’ that ‘he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed’ (Isaiah 53:3, 5)” (Holland, “Teaching, Preaching, Healing,” 42).

What does the word Hosanna mean? (11:16–17) “Whether in the heavens—and on earth in this dispensation—the [hosanna] shout expressed unspeakable, sublime, and deeply sacred joy, in Jewish usage it became more nearly a cry of supplication” (Woodbury, “The Origin of the Sacred Hosanna Shout,” 18). See commentary in this volume on 1 Nephi 11:6.

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