“Thrust Their Hands into His Side”

Alan C. Miner

According to Warren and Ferguson, referring to another of the manuscripts of the Aztecs, Kingsborough notes, "The seventy-fifth page of the Borgian manuscript [reproduced by Kingsborough] is very remarkable for the representation which it contains of Quetzalcoatl in the attitude of a crucified person, with the impressions of the nails visible in his hands and feet." (Ferguson 1958:139) [Bruce W. Warren and Thomas Stuart Ferguson, The Messiah in Ancient America, p. 37]

3 Nephi 11:15 [They] thrust their hands into his side, and did feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet (Illustration): That Ye May Know. "The multitude went forth, and thrust their hands into his side, and did feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet." Artist: Gary Kapp. [Thomas R. Valletta ed., The Book of Mormon for Latter-day Saint Families, 1999, p. 526]

Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon: A Cultural Commentary

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