Third Nephi — Chapter 17
1 After Jesus said these things, he looked at the people again and said to them: “I have to go now.
2 “I see that you are weak, and that you cannot understand all the words which the Father commanded me to tell you at this time.
3 “Go home and think hard about the things I have said. Ask the Father in my name to help you understand, and to get your minds ready for tomorrow, when I will come to you again.
4 “But now I am going to the Father, and also to show myself to the lost tribes of Israel. (They are not lost to the Father, because he knows where he has taken them.)”
5 After Jesus said this, he looked at the people again, and he saw that they were crying. They looked at him as if they wanted to ask him to stay with them a little longer.
6 So he said to them: “I am filled with mercy and love for you.
7 “Do you have any sick people with you? Bring them here. Do you have any people among you who cannot walk, or who are blind, or hurt, or deaf, or who have diseases or are sick in any way? Bring them here and I will heal them, because I love you, and I am filled with mercy for you.
8 “I see that you want me to show you what I have done for your brothers and sisters at Jerusalem, and I see that you have enough faith for me to heal you.”
9 After he said this, the people all came and brought the sick and hurt and lame and blind and deaf people to him. He healed every one of them as they were brought to him.
10 And all the people — those who had been healed and those who had been well — bowed down at his feet and worshiped him. As many people as could come to him kissed his feet, and his feet were washed by their tears.
11 Then he commanded them to bring their children to him.
12 So they brought their children to him and had them sit down on the ground around him. Jesus stood in the middle, and the people made room until all the children could be brought to him.
13 When they had all been brought to him, with Jesus standing in the middle, he commanded the people to kneel down on the ground.
14 After they all knelt on the ground, Jesus groaned in his heart and said: “Father, I am sad because of the wickedness of the House of Israel.”
15 After he said that, he knelt on the ground also and prayed to the Father. The things he prayed cannot be written, and the people who heard him say this:
16 “Eyes have never seen before, and ears have never heard before, the great and wonderful things we saw and heard Jesus say to the Father.
17 “No tongue can speak, and no one can write about, nor can people even think of such great and wonderful things as we saw and heard Jesus speak. And no one can understand the joy which filled our souls at the time we heard him pray to the Father for us.”
18 When Jesus was done praying to the Father, he stood up, but the people were so full of joy that they could not get up.
19 Then Jesus told them to stand up.
20 They stood up, and he said to them: “You are blessed because of your faith, and now I am full of joy.”
21 When he said that, he wept, and all the people saw it. Then he took their little children one by one and blessed them, and prayed to the Father for them.
22 After he did this, he wept again.
23 Then he said to the people: “Look at your little ones.”
24 And as they looked to see, they looked up at heaven and saw the heavens open. Angels came down as if in the middle of fire, and made a circle of fire around the little children, and blessed them.
25 The people saw this, and heard it, and were witnesses of it. They know their record is true, because they all saw and heard for themselves. There were about two thousand five hundred men, women, and children.
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