Principle: Jesus Christ exemplified love through the atonement and crucifixion.
Read: 2 Nephi 20:12 - 20:34
Verses 20-22 the phrase the word 'stay' means to fix on something. What did the children of Israel fix upon that led to their gathering? How is that a demonstration of love?
Alexander B. Morrison gives an additional insight:
“It was love for all of God’s children that led Jesus, unique in His sinless perfection, to offer Himself as ransom for the sins of others. … This, then, was the consummate cause which brought Jesus to earth to ‘suffer, bleed, and die for man’ [“’Tis Sweet to Sing the Matchless Love,” Hymns, no. 176]. He came … to atone for our sins, that He, being raised on the cross, might draw all men unto Him (see 3 Ne. 27:14)” (“For This Cause Came I into the World,” Ensign, Nov. 1999, 26).
Bruce R. McConkie taught:
"Now I should like to speak of Jesus Christ and him crucified, of the atonement of the Lord. The Atonement was worked out in a garden outside Jerusalem’s walls, a garden called Gethsemane. It was worked out in a way that is totally beyond our comprehension. We do not understand how. We know some of the why. We know that it did occur. We know that, in a way incomprehensible to a finite intellect, the Son of God took upon himself the sins of all men on conditions of repentance. That is, he paid the penalty. He satisfied the demands of justice. He made mercy available to us. Mercy cometh because of the Atonement. Mercy is for the penitent. Mercy is for the repentant. Everyone else has to suffer for his own sins and pay to the full extent the demands of justice. But our eternal Redeemer, and blessed be his name, has done for us what no one else could, and he did it because he was God’s Son and because he possessed the power of immortality. He has taken our sins upon him on conditions of repentance. " (Jesus Christ and Him Crucified, BYU Speeches, Sep 5, 1976)
What stands out to you about the love spoken of in these verses and quotes?