Did you notice the lie in verse 2? The Savior had told the people to render to Caesar but now they accuse him before Pilate, the Roman ruler over Jerusalem, of subverting Roman authority by teaching the people to not pay taxes. Pilate obviously doesn't buy it. It's also interesting that the Savior will talk to Pilate, but to Herod the Jewish leader, he won't speak at all. Herod was excited to see him hoping for a miracle, but the Savior will not acknowledge him.
Chapter 24
Verses 36-43 are great evidence that the resurrected Savior has a body of flesh and bones and we will also when we are resurrected. The apostles and others that are gathered together are startled when they see the Savior, thinking they are seeing a spirit. But the Savior goes to great lengths to show them that as a resurrected being he has a body. "Handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh an bones as ye see me have." Then he eats with them to prove it further. If you look at Romans 6:5, it says, "For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death (meaning our baptism where are buried in the water symbolizing the Savior's death), we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection..." In Third Nephi, over 2500 people feel the body of the Savior has he witnesses to them that he is the Messiah and he is a resurrected being with a body of flesh and bones. Finally, we have the witness of and revelations given to Joseph Smith. In the D&C section 130:22: "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us." Isn't great how the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Doctrine and Covenants always agree?
Verses 25-27 show that the Old Testament prophets, from Moses on, taught of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. Those scriptures were removed before the Savior's birth.
Verse 45 shows that the 12 were kept from understanding everything.
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