Filter: New Testament
Total chapters: 43
1 Nephi 1
New Testament
Lehi's vision has “One descending out of the midst of heaven, ...” and “twelve others following him,” presumably referring to the twelve apostles, immediately invoking explicit Christian imagery, unlike anything found in the Old Testament.
1 Nephi 11
New Testament
cf. Mat. 1:18-25 & Mk. 16:27-30 scribal-added ending. Jesus never said these things; they were added years later and we have the manuscripts to prove it. The earlier copies of the Gospel of Mark do not have these ammendments. This is a silver-bullet, bullseye level problem.
2 Nephi 28
New Testament
“Few stripes” refers to Lk. 12, parable of the rich man.
Jacob 7
New Testament
Sherem is struck dumb just as Zacharias was when he doubted the angel's message about the birth of John the Baptist (Luke 1:18–22).
Omni 1
New Testament
Mosiah being “warned of the Lord” reminds us of Mat. 2: Mary and Joseph being “warned of God in a dream,” (also Lehi); Acts 10: “Cornelius the centurion ... warned from God by an holy angel;” Hebrews 11, “Noah warned of God.”
Mosiah 16
New Testament
He quotes from Paul's epistle to the Corinthians, which had not been written yet.
Mosiah 24
New Testament
“He did know the thoughts of their hearts,” when they could not pray out loud. This reflects many places in the gospels where Jesus knows the thoughts of his interlocutors.
Mosiah 27
New Testament
cf. Acts 9:1–9: Alma also has a moment where God intervenes to stop his persecution of the saints, just as Paul on the road to Damascus.
Alma 4
New Testament
Quotes Paul about suffering for Christ's sake.
Alma 6
New Testament
cf. Rev. 3:5: “He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.”
Alma 7
New Testament
The 1981 footnote references Lk. 1:27, showing that Jerusalem is not where Jesus would be (from Alma's perspective) / was born (from our perspective / JS Jr.'s perspective). It's a strange flub, the type of thing you might say if you were dictating off the cuff. But this one little wrinkle doesn't really matter, since Bethlehem is sort of close to Jerusalem, and if all the other issues with the entire Book of Mormon don't bother you, then this one certainly wouldn't. And relative to the New World, Jerusalem v. Bethlehem might as well be the Sea of Tranquility v. the Ocean of Storms on the moon, and at least Alma's audience supposedly knew about Jerusalem, so maybe that explains it. But the layers of confusing anachronism are brain-melting. Think about it. No Jewish prophets or religious communities in the Old World knew that the Son of God would be from Nazareth, which Nephi knew years before. (Matthew quotes a missing scripture that Jesus would be called a Nazarene, maybe that one was on the brass plates?) But we are asked to believe that Nephi was a real person and knew about this from a vision, not from JS Jr. writing it into the story 1800 years after it happened. “At Jerusalem” is a relatively small thing to suspend disbelief about, compared to the rest of the problems we are asked to ignore.
Alma 10
New Testament
cf. Mat. 17:17, which is quoted before Jesus has even said it (“faithless and perverse generation” becomes “wicked and perverse generation”).
Alma 12
New Testament
cf. Rev. 20 & Rev. 21:8, etc. which mention the lake of fire and brimstone. This had not been written yet when Alma was teaching. Perhaps they saw the same vision as John the Revelator?
Alma 19
New Testament
cf. Jn. 11:43–44, episode of Lazurus brought forth from the tomb.
Alma 22
New Testament
cf. 1 Cor 15, etc. “death is swallowed up in ..."
Alma 30
New Testament
cf. Lk. 1 where Zacharias (father of John the Baptist) is struck dumb for his unbelief.
Alma 31
New Testament
cf. Lk 18: “The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.”
Alma 40
New Testament
cf. Rev. 20:5–7: “They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.” What cryptic passage of the New Testament has produced more speculation? (Note that Alma quoting this phrase, “first resurrection,” is anachronistic because it had not been written yet, early in the Christian era.)
Alma 41
New Testament
cf. 2 Peter 3:16, As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Alma 48
New Testament
Quotes Lk. 1:1, refering to George Washington Captain Moroni as a man of perfect understanding.
Helaman 3
New Testament
cf. Heb. 4:12 quoted nearly verbatim before it had supposedly been written.
Helaman 14
New Testament
cf. Mat. 25:52–53: at least one sign from the New Testament (graves opening and yielding there dead, and many saints shall appear to many) would occur in the New World.
3 Nephi 9
New Testament
The voice of Jesus uses little quotes from the New Testament in nearly every verse.
3 Nephi 11
New Testament
New Testament quotes abound in this chapter. Verse 27 contains modalism and is nearly trinitarian (Ganesh Cherian, Joseph Smith, Architech of Mormonism, 2025), very distinct from later 1840s JS Jr. teachings in Nauvoo. Which is weird, because 3 Ne. 11:40 unilaterally condemns innovative Nauvoo doctrines ("whoso shall declare more or less than this, and establish it for my doctrine, the same cometh of evil")
3 Nephi 17
New Testament
cf. Jn. 11:35. Nice use of the greatest verse in the New Testament.
3 Nephi 19
New Testament
"Whom I have chosen" is John 15:19 or Matthew/Isaiah language.
3 Nephi 27
New Testament
cf. Jn. 12:32—34: “... lifted up ... draw all men unto me ...”
Mormon 6
New Testament
“These bodies which are now moldering in corruption must soon become incorruptible bodies,” compare 1 Cor. 15:53–54.
Mormon 9
New Testament
JS Jr. quotes Mk. 16 second ending, a scribal interpolation added later, through Mormon, who said Jesus said this to the Nephites in the Americas. But Jesus never said this stuff in Mark 16.