Keywords
Nephi's gethsemane, literary record, Book of Mormon, shedding blood
Abstract
This note explores a literary comparison between Nephi’s confronting of Laban and shrinking from the act of shedding blood, to Jesus’s experience in the Garden of Gethsemane of shrinking from the act of shedding blood. Comparing these two stories suggests that we can profitably read Nephi’s experience with Laban as Nephi’s personal Gethsemane.
Recommended Citation
Halverson, Taylor
(2021)
"Nephi’s Gethsemane: Seventeen Comparisons from the Literary Record,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 46, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol46/iss1/4
