Principle: Jesus taught that no man but He had the power to lay down His life.
Read: 2 Nephi 19:1 - 20:11
To help understand these two chapters it is helpful to know at the time of Isaiah the house of Israel was separated into two kingdoms. Judah and Benjamin were based in Jerusalem and called themselves the tribe of Judah. (This is the kingdom Isaiah was apart of.) The remaining ten tribes formed a kingdom called the kingdom of Israel also known as Ephraim. They were based to the north in Shechem in Samaria. There was a separate kingdom outside of the house of Israel growing in power at this time known as the Assyrians. The prophecies in chapters 19 and 20 are centered around the kingdom of Israel and Assyria. The wickedness of the kingdom of Israel led to their conquering by the Assyrians and that is what led to them being known as the lost tribes as they were scattered throughout the land.
When Jesus was hung on the cross many believers and non believers were there. Read Matthew 27:26–54 and think about how you would have felt had you been there.
What do you think you would have felt being there?
What feelings would you have had about Christ?
In John 10:11, 17–18 Jesus teaches that He has the power to lay down his life. What do you think Christ means when He says "This commandment I have received of my Father."
James E. Talmage taught
“A natural effect of [Jesus’s] immortal origin, as the earth-born Son of an immortal Sire, was that He was immune to death except as He surrendered thereto. The life of Jesus the Christ could not be taken save as He willed and allowed. The power to lay down His life was inherent in Himself, as was the power to take up His slain body in an immortalized state” (Jesus the Christ, 3rd ed. [1916], 418).