3 Nephi 17

When Jesus spoke these words, He looked around at the crowd. He said to them: It is time for me to go. I see you are weak. You cannot understand all the words I am commanded by the Father to speak to you today.

Go home and think about the things I said. Pray to the Father, in my name, so you may understand. Prepare your minds. Tomorrow, I come again. Now I will go to the Father. I also go to show myself to the lost tribes of Israel.

Jesus looked around at the people again and saw they were in tears. They looked steadily to Him as if they would ask Him to stay a little longer.

He said to them: My heart is full of love for you. Bring your sick people to me. Bring any who cannot walk. Bring the blind and injured, the leprous and deaf. Bring those who are hurt or sick in any way. I will heal them, for I am full of mercy for you. Your faith is enough that I should heal you.

The people brought all who were hurt or ill and Jesus healed every one. They bowed down at His feet and worshiped him. They came and kissed his feet. Their tears bathed His feet.

Then Jesus told them to bring their little children. The little children sat on the ground around Him. Jesus told the crowd to kneel down on the ground.

Jesus also kneeled. He prayed: Father, I am troubled because of the sins of the people of the house of Israel.

Jesus prayed words to the Father that cannot be written. All the people heard Him. The people said: Our eyes have never seen, and our ears have never heard such great and wonderful things that we saw and heard Jesus speak to the Father. No tongue can speak, nor can there be written by any man, nor can the hearts of men imagine such great and marvelous things we saw and heard Jesus speak.

Our souls were filled with such great joy. People cannot imagine how great our joy was when we heard Jesus pray for us to the Father.

When Jesus finished praying to the Father, He stood up. But the joy of the people was so great they could not stand. He said to them: Arise. And they arose from the ground. Jesus said to them: You are blessed because of your faith. Now my joy is full.

When He said these words, He cried tears. Then He took their little children one by one and blessed them and prayed to the Father for them. When He finished, He cried again.

Jesus said: See your little ones. Then the heavens opened and angels came down. The angels gathered around the little children and blessed them.

Every person saw it with their own eyes and heard it with their own ears. There were about two thousand five hundred men, women and children.