What does the “bitter cup” represent?

Thomas R. Valletta

“It is doctrinally significant to note what the Savior did as he appeared to the people and for what purposes he did it. He taught and testified of himself. … He is the Christ, the Messiah who every prophet had testified would come into the world. … The ‘bitter cup’—which is the symbolic representation of the painful demands of justice that had to be met in order for the infinite and eternal sacrifice to be fulfilled—had been drunk” (McConkie, Millet, and Top, Doctrinal Commentary, 4:52).

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