“The Prophet Joseph Smith said that if Jesus had come to earth and preached the same ‘rough things’ and the ‘same doctrine’ in the Prophet’s day as he did to the Jews, that generation too would put him to death. It is noted that while the King James Version is quite clear in depicting Jesus’ troubles with the Jewish leaders, the Joseph Smith Translation and the Book of Mormon are even more explicit and pronounced. These later sources give us a more detailed and enhanced concept of the magnitude of the conflict than we could have obtained from the King James Version alone” (Matthews, Behold the Messiah, 271).