"And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends."
At the end when Jesus appears to the Jews in Jerusalem they will say these words, and cry because they will know their Lord. What a touching scene.
It reminded me of a video created with the April 14, 1981 BYU Devotional talk by Ezra Taft Benson about the last days, "Prepare Yourselves for the Great Day of the Lord". When he says this line as it reads in the Doctrine and Covenants, I cry.
President Ezra Taft Benson:
"Another appearance of the Lord will be to the Jews. To these beleaguered sons of Judah, surrounded by hostile Gentile armies, who again threaten to overrun Jerusalem, the Savior—their Messiah—will set his feet on the Mount of Olives,
and it shall cleave in twain, and the earth shall tremble, and reel to and fro, and the heavens also shall shake. [Doctrine & Covenants 45:47]
The Lord himself will then rout the Gentile armies, decimating their forces (see Ezekiel 38, 39). Judah will be spared, no longer to be persecuted and scattered. The Jews will then approach their Deliverer and ask, “What are these wounds in thine hands and in thy feet?”
I will say unto them: These wounds are the wounds with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. I am he who was lifted up. I am Jesus that was crucified. I am the Son of God.
And then shall they weep because of their iniquities; then shall they lament because they persecuted their king. [Doctrine & Covenants 45: 52–53]
What a touching drama this will be! Jesus—Prophet, Messiah, King—will be welcomed in his own country!
Jerusalem will become an eternal city of peace!"
Day 1499
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