Nephi commenced to prophesy concerning the manner in which the God of Israel will be rejected and in effect trampled under the feet of men. Clearly some of the prophecies recorded on the brass plates were more gospel-and Christ-centered than the scripture preserved for us in the Old Testament. They were written with greater power and clarity. From them Nephi was able to tell his people that Christ would be scourged, spit upon, crucified, and buried in a sepulchre, and that his death would be signaled to those on the isles of the sea by three days of darkness.