December 18

Often we can learn as much from what Christ did not do as we can from what he did. What he did not do was return to the Sanhedrin, where the great debate had raged over his testimony and works. He did not return to Caiaphas, to Pilate, to Herod, to the scribes, the Sadducees, or the Pharisees, to manifest himself and prove them wrong. Conversion and faith do not grow out of such experiences, and the God of heaven has not chosen to so indulge the wicked. What he did was to return to those who believed, fulfilling the promise that signs would follow their good works.

~Joseph Fielding McConkie