I read this one almost 6 months ago. Same rating as Book 1 even though I think I liked this one slightly better. But the main reason I liked it better is because the material being covered, Jesus' actual ministry, is more interesting than the previous book. McConkie's style is still largely scriptural citation and quotation, which is fine. Most of the money quotes come from the early great books about Christ from guys like Farrar, Edersheim, and Talmage. Still a good, worthwhile book.
Quotes:
"Where members of the Church are concerned, there is a very close connection between manifestations of healing grace and the forgiveness of sins. When the elders administer to faithful saints, the promise is: 'And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.' (James 5:15.) The very fact that a member of the kingdom has matured in the gospel to the point that he has power through faith in Christ to be healed, means that he also has so lived that he is entitled to have his sins remitted."
"The hand of Jesus was not polluted by touching the leper's body, but the leper's whole body was cleansed by the touch of that holy hand. It was even thus that He touched our sinful nature, and yet remained without spot of sin." - Farrar
"The Judaism of that day substituted empty forms and meaningless ceremonies for true righteousness; it mistook uncharitable exclusiveness for genuine purity; it delighted to sun itself in the injustice of an imagined favouritism from which it would fain have shut out all God's other children; it was so profoundly hypocritical as not even to recognise its own hypocrisy; it never thought so well of itself as when it was crushing the broken reed and trampling out the last spark from the smoking flax; it thanked God for the demerits which it took for virtues, and fancied that He could be pleased with a service in which there was neither humility, nor truthfulness, nor loyalty, nor love." - Farrar
"[W]hen the Risen Lord ministered among the Nephites[,] [b]e it noted that he spake not unto them in parables; they were a people prepared for their King."
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