“So Great and Marvelous Were the Words”

Brant Gardner

After this last encounter with the twelve Jesus again turns to pray. This time we do not have a record of any of the content of the prayer, only that it is too “great and marvelous” to be written. The fact that this entire episode terminates in something so special that it cannot be written, or even repeated, suggests that those present witnessed a singular event in the history of mankind. Although we do not know what Jesus prayed, the pattern of his prayers during this process indicates that it would have been a prayer of thanksgiving to God for what had just occurred.

Multidimensional Commentary on the Book of Mormon

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