In chapter 8 Nephi had explained that the people could
believe that Christ would come as Jeremiah, among others, had prophesied
because other things he had prophesied had clearly come true (Helaman
8:20-21). Upon Nephi’s prediction that
the chief judge had been murdered, five men in the audience were sent to verify
if it was so. These five men didn’t
believe Christ would come, despite what Jeremiah had prophesied. Still they used Nephi’s reasoning on their
way to confirm his claim of the chief judge’s death. “If the chief judge is
dead, we’ll believe everything else Nephi has said.” Finding the murdered chief
judge, they believed. Their belief was
solid, too, as they later effectively confounded the judges who sought to
arrest Nephi (see verse 18).
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