Certain men who saw an end to the lucrative practice in which they were engaged if the things whereof Alma and Amulek spoke were accepted by the people and therein guided their relationship one with another, were the leaders of those who sought the destruction of God's servants. They were lawyers who were trained in all the artifice of make-believe. They were those who were hired as paid protectors of those accused of crime. Sophistry and guile were their major implements of trade. Often they conspired with the judges to defeat the truth and reward the wicked. Cunningly devised fables enabled the skillful practice of their profession which was predicated upon wit and prevarication.
Armed with all the verbal paraphernalia of their trade these so-called defenders of truth and justice began to question Amulek about the things the truth of which he had testified. They hoped that they could embroil him in contradicting his own or Alma's words. In this they were mistaken. They knew not the Ways of the Lord.