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 Jared's brother responded, "Yes, Lord, I know Thou speaks the truth, for Thou art a God of truth and cannot lie."

Then the Lord showed Himself and said,


 * "Because you know these things, you are redeemed from the fall, are brought back into my presence, and I show myself to you.


 * I am the one prepared from the foundation of the world to redeem my people. I am Jesus Christ, the Father and the Son.


 * Through me, all who will believe in my name will have eternal life, and become my sons and daughters.


 * I have never before shown myself to man, whom I have created, for no man has believed in me as much as you.


 * Now you know you were created after my own image. In the beginning, all men were created after my own image.


 * This body you now see is my body in the image of my spirit. I have created man in the image of my spirit, and as I now appear to you in the spirit, I will appear to my people in the flesh."

As I, Moroni, said earlier, I cannot make a complete account of the things written on these 24 plates.

It is enough to say that Jesus showed Himself in the spirit and ministered to Jared's brother in the same manner that He showed Himself in the flesh to the Nephites. He did this and other great works so Jared's brother would know that He was God.

After Jared's brother had seen Jesus' finger, he no longer had faith, but a perfect knowledge of the Lord. With this perfect