After teaching and expounding to the multitude the great doctrines of the kingdom, Jesus ministered to and blessed the children. So great was the spiritual outpouring, and so great his love and compassion for the little children, that “he did loose their tongues” and they uttered marvelous things that Mormon described as “even greater than [Jesus] had revealed unto the people.”
One can scarcely imagine such deeply spiritual and profound things being uttered by little children. We are left to conjecture about their messages. Was the veil parted to allow them to speak of life in the first estate? Did they discourse upon life among the Gods in a celestial environment? Did they reveal doctrinal mysteries which today’s world could not receive?
Such an event epitomizes that of which the prophet Joel prophesied, albeit of a later time:
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and daughters shall prophesy” (Joel 2:28; see also Alma 32:23.)