3 Nephi 17:16-18

Brant Gardner

We can only wonder at what was said. We can only hope to one day have the power of the communication that Jesus had with his father. There was information in that prayer, but more than information, there was powerful emotion. Both the words and the emotions were beyond capturing in a written record.

Nevertheless, we do learn that even though the prayer began with dismay at the wickedness of the people of the house of Israel, that was not the whole theme of the prayer, for the result was far from the sadness of the prayer’s beginning. At the end, “so great was the joy of the multitude that they were overcome.”

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