Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern

On a certain Sabbath Jesus was a guest at the house of a prominent Pharisee. A man afflicted with dropsy was there; he may have come with the hope of receiving a blessing, or po...

Matthew's account of the invaluable address, known to us as the Sermon on the Mount, is closed with a forceful sentence of his own, referring to the effect of the Master's words...

From Gethsemane the bound and captive Christ was haled before the Jewish rulers. John alone informs us that the Lord was taken first to Annas, who sent Him, still bound, to Caia...

As the time for the annual Feast of the Passover approached, and particularly during the two days immediately preceding the beginning of the festival, the chief priests, scribes...

"Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven....

Of our Lord's labors during His brief sojourn in Galilee following His return from the region of Cæsarea Philippi we have no record aside from that of His instructions to the ap...

When or under what attendant circumstances our Lord departed from Jerusalem after the Feast of Tabernacles, in the last autumn of His earthly life, we are not told. The writers...

The Jewish authorities continued unceasingly active in their determined efforts to tempt or beguile Jesus into some act or utterance on which they could base a charge of offense...

Throughout the period of Christ's ministry with which we have thus far dealt, His fame had continuously increased, because of the authority with which He spoke and of the many m...

By considering the apostolic ministry in immediate sequence to our study of the Lord's ascension from the Mount of Olives, we have departed from the chronological order of the s...

Near the close of the day on which Jesus had taught the multitudes for the first time by parables, He said to the disciples, "Let us pass over unto the other side."[657] The des...

In the course of His last walk from Jerusalem back to the beloved home at Bethany, Jesus rested at a convenient spot on the Mount of Olives, from which the great city and the ma...

In the year of our Lord 1820 there lived at Manchester, Ontario county, state of New York, a worthy citizen named Joseph Smith. His household comprized his wife and their nine c...

Each of the three synoptic writers has made record of this last journey to Jerusalem and of occurrences connected therewith. The deep solemnity of the developments now so near a...

It will be remembered that, in the early days of His public ministry, Jesus had been rejected by the people of Nazareth, who thrust Him out from their synagog and tried to kill...

Our Lord's last recorded discourse in the synagog at Capernaum, which followed close upon the miracle of feeding the five thousand and that of walking upon the water, marked the...

After witnessing the Lord's ascension from Olivet, the eleven apostles returned to Jerusalem filled with joy and thoroughly suffused with the spirit of adoring worship. Both in...

Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, had passed, and the night preceding the dawn of the most memorable Sunday in history was well nigh spent, while the Roman guard kept watch over the...

Soon after the marriage festivities in Cana, Jesus, accompanied by His disciples, as also by His mother and other members of the family, went to Capernaum, a town pleasantly sit...

Equally definite with the prophecies declaring that the Messiah would be born in the lineage of David are the predictions that fix the place of His birth at Bethlehem, a small t...

On the morrow, which, as we reckon, was Monday, the second day of Passion week, Jesus and the Twelve returned to Jerusalem and spent the greater part of the day at the temple. T...

Our Lord's descent from the holy heights[795] of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was a passing from sunshine in...

Unto Moses, with whom the Lord spake "face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend,"[144] the course of the human race, both as then past and future, was made known; and the...

At some time very near that of the ordination of the Twelve, Jesus delivered a remarkable discourse, which, in reference to the place where it was given, has come to be known as...

Pontius Pilate, having reluctantly surrendered to the clamorous demands of the Jews, issued the fatal order; and Jesus, divested of the purple robe and arrayed in His own appare...

The direct route from Judea to Galilee lay through Samaria; but many Jews, particularly Galileans, chose to follow an indirect though longer way rather than traverse the country...

At a time definitely stated as the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, emperor of Rome, the people of Judea were greatly aroused over the strange preaching of a man t...

The coming of Christ to earth to tabernacle in the flesh was no unexpected or unheralded event. For centuries prior to the great occurrence the Jews had professed to be looking...

We have heretofore shown that the entire human race existed as spirit-beings in the primeval world, and that for the purpose of making possible to them the experiences of mortal...

Associated with the prophecies of the birth of Christ are predictions concerning one who should precede Him, going before to prepare the way. It is not surprizing that the annun...

During the period of our Lord's retirement in the wilderness the Baptist continued his ministry, crying repentance to all who would pause to hear, and administering baptism to s...

Early in the morning following that eventful Sabbath in Capernaum, our Lord arose "a great while before day" and went in quest of seclusion beyond the town. In a solitary place...

Jesus returned to Jerusalem in time to attend the Feast of Dedication during the last winter of His earthly life. This feast, like that of Tabernacles, was one of national rejoi...

The observance of the Sabbath as a holy day was prominent among the Lord's requirements of His people, Israel, from a very early period in their history as a nation. Indeed, the...

The night preceding the morn on which the Twelve Apostles were called and ordained was spent by the Lord in solitary seclusion; He had "continued all night in prayer to God."[45...

For over seventeen hundred years on the eastern hemisphere, and for more than fourteen centuries on the western, there appears to have been silence between the heavens and the e...

We affirm, on the authority of Holy Scripture, that the Being who is known among men as Jesus of Nazareth, and by all who acknowledge His Godhood as Jesus the Christ, existed wi...

Joseph, Mary, and her Son remained in Egypt until after the death of Herod the Great, which event was made known by another angelic visitation. Their stay in the foreign land wa...

It now becomes our purpose to inquire as to the position and status of Jesus the Christ in the antemortal world, from the period of the solemn council in heaven, in which He was...

Jesus the Christ died in the literal sense in which all men die. He underwent a physical dissolution by which His immortal spirit was separated from His body of flesh and bones,...

Of the week following the events last considered, no record is found in the Gospels. We may safely assume that the time was devoted, in part at least, to the further instruction...

It is a matter of history that, at or near the beginning of what has since come to be known as the Christian era, the Man Jesus, surnamed the Christ, was born in Bethlehem of Ju...

A new dispensation.--Joseph Smith's perplexity over sectarian strife.--The Eternal Father and His Son Jesus Christ appear to and personally instruct Joseph Smith.--Visitation of...

In the house of one of the chief Pharisees.--Parable of the Great Supper.--Counting the cost.--Salvation even for publicans and sinners.--Parable of the Lost Sheep repeated.--Of...

Jesus rejected in Samaria.--James and John reproved for revengeful desire.--The Seventy charged and sent.--Their return.--A lawyer's question.--Parable of Good Samaritan.--Marth...

Departure from Galilee.--At the Feast of Tabernacles.--Another charge of Sabbath desecration.--Living water for the spiritually thirsty.--Plans to arrest Jesus.--Nicodemus prote...

Christ is risen.--The women at the sepulchre.--Angelic communications.--The risen Lord seen by Mary Magdalene.--And by other women.--A priestly conspiracy of falsehood.--The Lor...

The Lord's death signalized by great calamities on western continent.--The Voice of the Lord Jesus Christ heard.--His visitations to the Nephites.--The Nephite Twelve.--Baptism...

The great falling away as predicted.--Individual apostasy from the Church.--Apostasy of the Church.--Constantine makes Christianity the religion of state.--Papal claims to secul...

Judas Iscariot in conspiracy with the Jews.--Preparations for the Lord's last Passover.--The last supper of Jesus with the Twelve.--The traitor designated.--Ordinance of washing...

Jesus again foretells His death and resurrection.--Aspiring request of James and John.--Sight restored near Jericho.--Zaccheus the chief publican.--Parable of the Pounds.--The s...

Pharisees and Herodians in conspiracy.--Cæsar to have his due.--The image on the coin.--Sadducees and the resurrection.--Levirate marriages.--The great commandment.--Jesus turns...

A leafy but fruitless fig tree cursed.--Second clearing of the temple.--Children shout Hosanna.--Christ's authority challenged by the rulers.--Parable of the two sons. Of the Wi...

The Jewish trial.--Christ before Annas and Caiaphas.--The illegal night court.--The morning session.--False witnesses and unrighteous conviction.--Peter's denial of his Lord.--C...

Healing of centurion's servant.--Young man of Nain raised from the dead.--John Baptist's message to Jesus.--The Lord's commentary thereon.--Death of John Baptist.--Jesus in hous...

Ceremonial washings.--Pharisees rebuked.--Jesus in borders of Tyre and Sidon.--Daughter of Syro-Phoenician woman healed.--Miracles wrought in coasts of Decapolis.--Four thousand...

Matthias ordained to the apostleship.--Bestowal of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost.--The apostles' preaching.--Imprisoned and delivered.-- Gamaliel's advice to the council.--Stephen...

Jesus again in Nazareth.--The Twelve charged and sent out.--Their return.--Five thousand people miraculously fed.--Miracle of walking upon the water.--People seek Christ for mor...

Spirits of diverse capacities.--Entrance of sin into the world foreseen.--God's foreknowledge not a determining cause.--Creation of man in the flesh.--Fall of man.--Atonement ne...

Youthful demoniac healed.--Further prediction of Christ's death and resurrection.--The tribute money; supplied by a miracle.--Humility illustrated by a little child.--Parable of...

Jesus and the Samaritan woman.--Among the Samaritans.--While at Cana Christ heals a nobleman's son in Capernaum.--At Nazareth Christ preaches in synagog.--Nazarenes attempt to k...

Ancient predictions of the Lord's second advent.--Modern revelation affirms the same.--Today and tomorrow.--The great and dreadful day near at hand.--Kingdom of God and Kingdom...

At the Feast of Dedication.--Sheep know the Shepherd's Voice.--The Lord's retirement in Perea.--Lazarus raised from the dead.--Jewish hierarchy agitated over the miracle.--Proph...

Antemortal existence of spirits.--Primeval council in heaven.--Rebellion of Lucifer.--His defeat and expulsion.--Free agency of man insured.--The Beloved Son chosen to be the Sa...

Candidates for discipleship.--Stilling the storm.--Quieting the demons in region of Gadara.--Raising of daughter of Jairus.--Restoration to life and resurrection.--A woman heale...

Prophecies relating to destruction of Jerusalem and the Lord's future advent.--Watch!--Parable of Ten Virgins.--Of the Entrusted Talents.--The inevitable judgment.--Another and...

Birth of Jesus Christ.--His presentation in the temple.--Visit of the magi.--Herod's evil designs.--The Child taken into Egypt.--Birth of Christ made known to Nephites.--Time of...

Sabbath distinctively sacred to Israel.--Cripple healed on Sabbath day.--Accusations by the Jews and the Lord's reply thereto.--Disciples charged with Sabbath-breaking.--Man wit...

The Beatitudes.--Dignity and responsibility in the ministry.--The Mosaic law superseded by the gospel of Christ.--Sincerity of purpose. The Lord's Prayer.--True wealth.--Promise...