Christ the Lord, Jehovah, identifies himself as Alpha and Omega in several places from the Book of Revelation (1:18, 11, 21:6, 22:13), to the Book of Mormon (3 Nephi 9:18) as well as in the Doctrine & Covenants: “I am Alpha and Omega, Christ the Lord; yea, even I am he, the beginning and the…

In the parable of the Wicked Husbandmen, Jesus told how the planter of the vineyard (who we understand to represent God) let out His vineyard to Husbandmen (people who cultivate land). He sent servants to “receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard”, but the servants were caught, beaten, sent away, wounded, stoned…

John the Baptist introduced Jesus as “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). David and Jo Ann Seely, Instructors in Ancient Scripture at BYU, provide a number of insights into the practice in which Lambs were offered as sacrifices on sabbaths, special feasts and holy days and how…

The title ‘Son of Man’ is found eighty-three times in the New Testament Gospels and is a name that Jesus used frequently to describe himself. Like with many of Jesus’ names, there are more ways than one in which to interpret and derive meaning from the title. On the one hand, the name affirms Christ’s…

President Russel M. Nelson has spoken at length and on numerous occasions about the names and titles of Jesus Christ and their history and meaning. In 1992, he gave a speech at BYU titled ‘Jesus the Christ–Our Master and More’ in which he provides the following insights into the names ‘Jehovah’ and ‘I AM’: “Jesus…

Jesus was of course, a master teacher and as such understood that to establish an understanding in his audience, He would need to teach eternal principles according to their frame of reference. In the parable of the Good Shepherd, Christ teaches profound truths all through what would have been very familiar imagery to his audience;…

“Messiah’ is an Aramaic word meaning “the Anointed.” According to the Bible Dictionary, “it denotes the King and Deliverer whose coming the Jews were eagerly expecting. In the New Testament the deliverer is called the Christ, which is the Greek equivalent of Messiah, and Jesus the Messiah is called Jesus the Christ, Jesus Christ, or…

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland taught: “Even as a new star appeared in the heavens to celebrate His mortal birth, Jesus’s ministry was to be characterized as that of “the light and the Redeemer of the world” (Doctrine and Covenants 93:9). He is “the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world” (John…

One of Jesus’ best known titles is that of Savior. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland taught: “Unlike redeem, which is to buy back, to save means to preserve or protect, to deliver one from danger. We all respond to stories of heroism in which a child is saved from a burning home or a soldier is…

“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3) Christ was indeed a man of sorrows. The way that He was treated represents the greatest of injustices; a perfect, unselfish being; the Creator of the world, the Savior of the world; a man who healed and served…