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A person breaks bread and hands it to someone. Bread is one example of Passover imagery Jesus Christ used in his "Bread of Life" sermon.
March 28, 2023
KnoWhy #664; John 6:35
Why Did Jesus Use Passover Imagery in His Bread of Life Sermon?
Jorge Cocco's drawing, "The Persistent Widow," depicting a widow kneeling as she appeals to a judge.
March 14, 2023
KnoWhy #662; Luke 11:5–6
What Do the Parables of the Importuning Friend and Widow Teach Us about Prayer?
Jorge Cocco's painting, "Let Them Grow Together," depicting the owner of the field instructing his servants not to remove the tares, but to let the wheat and tares grow together.
February 28, 2023
KnoWhy #660; Matthew 13:24–25
What Does the Parable of the Wheat and Tares Teach about the Apostasy?
Jorge Cocco's painting, "The Rock and the Sand," depicting Jesus' parable of the house built on the rock and the house built on sand.
February 21, 2023
KnoWhy #659; Luke 6:47–48; cf. Matthew 7:24–25
How Can We Build Our Foundations on a Rock?
A painting by Linda Curley Christensen of a gate in Jerusalem known as the Beautiful Gate.
February 14, 2023
KnoWhy #658; John 4:14
How Can Jesus Provide to All People the Waters of Life?
The tiled mosaic of The Bronze serpent on the desert and Moses in church All Saints by Matthew Digby Wyatt 1820-1877.
February 6, 2023
KnoWhy #657; John 3:14–15
Why Did Jesus Compare Himself to the Brazen Serpent?
Jesus Christ reads Isaiah 61 in the synagogue. Image from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Bible Videos
January 31, 2023
KnoWhy #656; Luke 4:18–19; cf. Isaiah 61:1–2
Why Does Jesus Announce that Isaiah 61:1–2 Is Fulfilled?
The Baptism of the Christ with Dove by Daniel Bonnell. Image via Fine Art America.
January 24, 2023
KnoWhy #655; Mark 1:11; cf. Matthew 3:17; Luke 3:22
Why Was Jesus Proclaimed the Son of God at His Baptism?
Adoration of the Shepherds by Dutch painter Matthias Stomer, 1632. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
January 10, 2023
KnoWhy 654; Matthew 1:23; cf. Isaiah 7:14
Why Do We Have Multiple Accounts of Jesus’s Birth?
A sarcophagus relief of Jonah and Jesus Christ.
November 23, 2022
KnoWhy 652; Matthew 12:39–40
What Is the Sign of Jonah?
Left: Portrait of King Hezekiah generated by Midjourney. Right. Portrait of Jesus Christ by Heinrich Hofmann.
September 27, 2022
KnoWhy 648; Isaiah 53:10
Why Did Isaiah Prophesy of a Suffering Messiah?
Portrait of Isaiah and Jesus Christ. Images generated by Midjourney.
September 20, 2022
KnoWhy 647;
How Did Isaiah Prophesy of the Savior?
Christ of Saint John on the Cross by Salvador Dali.
August 9, 2022
KnoWhy 641; Psalm 22:16
Does Psalm 22 Really Say “They Pierced My Hands and My Feet”?
Christ Appears in Kirtland Temple by Walter Rane. Image via Gospel Media Library.
October 5, 2021
KnoWhy 619; Doctrine and Covenants 110:1
Why Is the “Pentecostal” Season in Kirtland Believable?
Image by Normandy Poulter and the Virtual Scriptures Group.
December 1, 2020
KnoWhy 587; Moroni 3:1–3
Why Did Moroni Provide the Exact Wording of Priesthood Ordinances?
I Knew Not, by Marcus Moore, submitted to the 2017 Book of Mormon Central Art Contest.
November 10, 2020
KnoWhy 584; Ether 3:15
Why Did Jesus Say, “Never Have I Showed Myself unto Man”?
El Guardian by Jorge Cocco.
October 27, 2020
KnoWhy 582; Mormon 1:1
How Do the Events of Mormon’s Life Shape the Entire Book of Mormon?
The Four Stages of the Nephite Prophetic Worldview: Christ's Coming, Scattering of the Jews, Day of the Gentiles, and Final Victory. Image by Book of Mormon Central.
October 13, 2020
KnoWhy 580; 3 Nephi 20:32
How Did Christ Use the Nephite Prophetic Worldview?
Family kneeling in prayer. Photo via ComeUntoChrist.org
October 6, 2020
KnoWhy 579; 3 Nephi 18:21
Why Should You Have Family Prayer?
The First Vision by Jorge Cocco, submitted to the 2017 Book of Mormon Central Art Contest.
September 15, 2020
KnoWhy 578; 3 Nephi 11:7
Why Does the Father Say “Hear Ye Him”?
Jesus Christ as a high priest. Artist Unknown.
September 8, 2020
KnoWhy 577; 3 Nephi title and heading
Why Should 3 Nephi Be Read as the Book of the High Priest Nephi?
Lord of Prayer by Yungsung Kim. Image via Lighthaven
June 2, 2020
564; Alma 7:11
Whose “Word” Was Fulfilled by Christ’s Suffering “Pains and Sicknesses”?
“Mary, the Mother of Jesus” via Gospel Media Library
December 24, 2019
KnoWhy #543; 1 Nephi 11:22
Why Didn’t Nephi Mention Mary’s Name?
El rey Benjamin by Jorge Cocco.
October 17, 2019
KnoWhy #536; Mosiah 3:8
Why Did Benjamin Give Multiple Names for Jesus at the Coronation of his Son Mosiah?
“The Apocalypse of Saint John the Evangelist” by Jan Massijs
September 12, 2019
KnoWhy #531; Helaman 10:7; Matthew 16:19
Why Do New Testament Words and Phrases Show Up in the Book of Mormon? Part 4: Revelations to Nephite Prophets as the Source (Part B)
Guatemala’s Volcan de Fuego via the Associated Press
September 6, 2019
KnoWhy #530; 3 Nephi 9:9
Is there evidence for great destruction in the land northward at the death of Christ?
“My Other Sheep” by John Zamudio
August 22, 2019
KnoWhy #528; 3 Nephi 5:12-13
Why do New Testament Words and Phrases Show Up in the Book of Mormon? Part 2: The Resurrected Jesus as the Source
Image by Elias_Sch via Pixabay.com
August 2, 2019
KnoWhy #527; 3 Nephi 14:15
Why Must We Beware Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing?
Gethsemane by J. Kirk Richards.
June 13, 2019
KnoWhy #520; Mosiah 3:7
Did Jesus Bleed from Every Pore?
“Whom Do Men Say That I the Son of Man Am?” via Gospel Media Library
May 23, 2019
KnoWhy #517; Moroni 10:32
What Does It Mean to Love God with “All Thy Mind”?