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from every pore of His body by reason of His anguish because of the abominations of His people.

He should be cast out and rejected by the Jews; be taken and scourged, and be judged of the world.

He should be lifted upon the cross and slain for the sins of the world.

He should be buried in a sepulchre, where He should remain three days.

After He was slain He should rise from the dead and should make Himself manifest by the Holy Ghost unto the Gentiles.

He should lay down His life according to the flesh and take it up again by the power of the Spirit, that he might bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, being the first that should rise.

At His resurrection many graves should be opened and should yield up their dead and many of the saints, who had beforetime passed away, should appear unto the living.

He should redeem all mankind who would believe on His name.

In the above We have not mentioned the sayings of Isaiah and other Jewish prophets, which are inserted in the Book of Mormon, but which also appear in the Bible.

Visits of Jesus before his advent. On this continent, as on the eastern, Jesus manifested Himself from time to time to His faithful servants, before His coming in the flesh. He was the guide of His people, the guardian of the church, and the revealer of the mind and will of the Godhead. He went before the people of Jared in their journey, instructing them and covenanting with them. Few events recorded in the Book of Mormon are more widely known than His appearance in the body of His spirit to the brother of Jared. His statements with regard to himself then were: "I am he who was prepared from the foundation of the world to redeem my