Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'time' occurs 1332 times in the standard works.

481 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'time' in the standard works and contain 36.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 180 minutes to read the entire list.

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Eccl. 3:1-17 (31 in 17 verses)

Alma 39:16-40:14 (23 in 18 verses)

Abr. 3:4-14 (15 in 11 verses)

Jacob 5:71-6:2 (9 in 9 verses)

JS-H 1:53-59 (7 in 7 verses)

Abr. 4:31-5:3 (6 in 4 verses)

D&C 98:39-44 (6 in 6 verses)

D&C 127:10-128:3 (6 in 6 verses)

1 Kgs. 18:34-36 (5 in 3 verses)

Omni 1:15-17 (5 in 3 verses)

Dan. 12:1-4 (5 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 17:42-45 (5 in 4 verses)

JS-H 1:5-8 (5 in 4 verses)

D&C 58:52-56 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 124:140 (4 in 1 verse)

D&C 130:4 (4 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 4:10-11 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 36:28-29 (4 in 2 verses)

Hel. 14:20-21 (4 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:62-64 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 13:24-26 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 47:11-13 (4 in 3 verses)

John 21:14-17 (4 in 4 verses)

Jacob 5:29-32 (4 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 28:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 34:31-34 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 20:61-64 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 48:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 29:27 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 42:4 (3 in 1 verse)

Ether 14:29 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 105:27 (3 in 1 verse)

Abr. 5:13 (3 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 9:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Zeph. 3:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 11:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 25:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 58:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 1:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 5:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 104:58-59 (3 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:27-28 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 10:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Hag. 1:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

John 7:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 12:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 3:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 18:36-38 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 28:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 39:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 124:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 124:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:46-48 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 18:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 24:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 15:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 13:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 5:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 10:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 9:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Esth. 4:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 102:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 45:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 15:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 51:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 35:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 7:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 11:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 5:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 13:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 16:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 6:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 2:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 12:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 14:23 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 16:29 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 18:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 1:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 10:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 7:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 8:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 24:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 27:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 9:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 10:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 19:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 49:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 50:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 60:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 12:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 13:24 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 5:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 1:28 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 20:82 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 28:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 35:18 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 42:33 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 90:14 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 101:48 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 115:18 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:115 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 1:3 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:75 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 9:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 22:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 4:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 4:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 14:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 39:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 129:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 8:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 2:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 38:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 3:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 13:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 2:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 9:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Pet. 4:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 10:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 1:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 21:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 7:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 7:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 9:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 53:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 8:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 1:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 4:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 8:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 11:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 15:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 17:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 20:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 4:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 34:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 72:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:84-85 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 98:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 112:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 126:3-127:1 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 138:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 5:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:61-62 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 449 152 601
NT 170 47 217
BM 421 37 458
DC 214 44 258
PGP 78 11 89
Moses 14 0 14
Abr. 33 2 35
JS-M 1 0 1
JS-H 30 9 39
TOTAL 1332 291 1623

Moses 1:1
The words of God, which he spake unto Moses at a time when Moses was caught up into an exceedingly high mountain,

Moses 5:3
And from that time forth, the sons and daughters of Adam began to divide two and two in the land, and to till the land, and to tend flocks, and they also begat sons and daughters.

Moses 5:13
And Satan came among them, saying: I am also a son of God; and he commanded them, saying: Believe it not; and they believed it not, and they loved Satan more than God. And men began from that time forth to be carnal, sensual, and devilish.

Moses 5:19
And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.

Moses 5:24
For from this time forth thou shalt be the father of his lies; thou shalt be called Perdition; for thou wast also before the world.

Moses 5:25
And it shall be said in time to come-- That these abominations were had from Cain; for he rejected the greater counsel which was had from God; and this is a cursing which I will put upon thee, except thou repent.

Moses 5:57
For they would not hearken unto his voice, nor believe on his Only Begotten Son, even him whom he declared should come in the meridian of time, who was prepared from before the foundation of the world.

Moses 6:57
Wherefore teach it unto your children, that all men, everywhere, must repent, or they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God, for no unclean thing can dwell there, or dwell in his presence; for, in the language of Adam, Man of Holiness is his name, and the name of his Only Begotten is the Son of Man, even Jesus Christ, a righteous Judge, who shall come in the meridian of time.

Moses 6:62
And now, behold, I say unto you: This is the plan of salvation unto all men, through the blood of mine Only Begotten, who shall come in the meridian of time.

Moses 7:2
And from that time forth Enoch began to prophesy, saying unto the people, that: As I was journeying, and stood upon the place Mahujah, and cried unto the Lord, there came a voice out of heaven, saying-- Turn ye, and get ye upon the mount Simeon.

Moses 7:16
And from that time forth there were wars and bloodshed among them; but the Lord came and dwelt with his people, and they dwelt in righteousness.

Moses 7:21
And it came to pass that the Lord showed unto Enoch all the inhabitants of the earth; and he beheld, and lo, Zion, in process of time, was taken up into heaven. And the Lord said unto Enoch: Behold mine abode forever.

Moses 7:46
And the Lord said: It shall be in the meridian of time, in the days of wickedness and vengeance.

Moses 7:62
And righteousness will I send down out of heaven; and truth will I send forth out of the earth, to bear testimony of mine Only Begotten; his resurrection from the dead; yea, and also the resurrection of all men; and righteousness and truth will I cause to sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth, unto a place which I shall prepare, an Holy City, that my people may gird up their loins, and be looking forth for the time of my coming; for there shall be my tabernacle, and it shall be called Zion, a New Jerusalem.

Abr. 1:3
It was conferred upon me from the fathers; it came down from the fathers, from the beginning of time, yea, even from the beginning, or before the foundation of the earth, down to the present time, even the right of the firstborn, or the first man, who is Adam, or first father, through the fathers unto me.

Abr. 1:8
Now, at this time it was the custom of the priest of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to offer up upon the altar which was built in the land of Chaldea, for the offering unto these strange gods, men, women, and children.

Abr. 1:11
Now, this priest had offered upon this altar three virgins at one time, who were the daughters of Onitah, one of the royal descent directly from the loins of Ham. These virgins were offered up because of their virtue; they would not bow down to worship gods of wood or of stone, therefore they were killed upon this altar, and it was done after the manner of the Egyptians.

Abr. 1:28
But I shall endeavor, hereafter, to delineate the chronology running back from myself to the beginning of the creation, for the records have come into my hands, which I hold unto this present time.

Abr. 3:4
And the Lord said unto me, by the Urim and Thummim, that Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord's time, according to the reckoning of Kolob.

Abr. 3:5
And the Lord said unto me: The planet which is the lesser light, lesser than that which is to rule the day, even the night, is above or greater than that upon which thou standest in point of reckoning, for it moveth in order more slow; this is in order because it standeth above the earth upon which thou standest, therefore the reckoning of its time is not so many as to its number of days, and of months, and of years.

Abr. 3:6
And the Lord said unto me: Now, Abraham, these two facts exist, behold thine eyes see it; it is given unto thee to know the times of reckoning, and the set time, yea, the set time of the earth upon which thou standest, and the set time of the greater light which is set to rule the day, and the set time of the lesser light which is set to rule the night.

Abr. 3:7
Now the set time of the lesser light is a longer time as to its reckoning than the reckoning of the time of the earth upon which thou standest.

Abr. 3:8
And where these two facts exist, there shall be another fact above them, that is, there shall be another planet whose reckoning of time shall be longer still;

Abr. 3:9
And thus there shall be the reckoning of the time of one planet above another, until thou come nigh unto Kolob, which Kolob is after the reckoning of the Lord's time; which Kolob is set nigh unto the throne of God, to govern all those planets which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.

Abr. 3:10
And it is given unto thee to know the set time of all the stars that are set to give light, until thou come near unto the throne of God.

Abr. 3:14
And it was in the night time when the Lord spake these words unto me: I will multiply thee, and thy seed after thee, like unto these; and if thou canst count the number of sands, so shall be the number of thy seeds.

Abr. 4:8
And the Gods called the expanse, Heaven. And it came to pass that it was from evening until morning that they called night; and it came to pass that it was from morning until evening that they called day; and this was the second time that they called night and day.

Abr. 4:13
And it came to pass that they numbered the days; from the evening until the morning they called night; and it came to pass, from the morning until the evening they called day; and it was the third time.

Abr. 4:19
And it came to pass that it was from evening until morning that it was night; and it came to pass that it was from morning until evening that it was day; and it was the fourth time.

Abr. 4:23
And it came to pass that it was from evening until morning that they called night; and it came to pass that it was from morning until evening that they called day; and it was the fifth time.

Abr. 4:31
And the Gods said: We will do everything that we have said, and organize them; and behold, they shall be very obedient. And it came to pass that it was from evening until morning they called night; and it came to pass that it was from morning until evening that they called day; and they numbered the sixth time.

Abr. 5:2
And the Gods said among themselves: On the seventh time we will end our work, which we have counseled; and we will rest on the seventh time from all our work which we have counseled.

Abr. 5:3
And the Gods concluded upon the seventh time, because that on the seventh time they would rest from all their works which they (the Gods) counseled among themselves to form; and sanctified it. And thus were their decisions at the time that they counseled among themselves to form the heavens and the earth.

Abr. 5:13
But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the time that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Now I, Abraham, saw that it was after the Lord's time, which was after the time of Kolob; for as yet the Gods had not appointed unto Adam his reckoning.

JS-M 1:18
For then, in those days, shall be great tribulation on the Jews, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, such as was not before sent upon Israel, of God, since the beginning of their kingdom until this time; no, nor ever shall be sent again upon Israel.

JS-H 1:5
Some time in the second year after our removal to Manchester, there was in the place where we lived an unusual excitement on the subject of religion. It commenced with the Methodists, but soon became general among all the sects in that region of country. Indeed, the whole district of country seemed affected by it, and great multitudes united themselves to the different religious parties, which created no small stir and division amongst the people, some crying, "Lo, here!" and others, "Lo, there!" Some were contending for the Methodist faith, some for the Presbyterian, and some for the Baptist.

JS-H 1:6
For, notwithstanding the great love which the converts to these different faiths expressed at the time of their conversion, and the great zeal manifested by the respective clergy, who were active in getting up and promoting this extraordinary scene of religious feeling, in order to have everybody converted, as they were pleased to call it, let them join what sect they pleased; yet when the converts began to file off, some to one party and some to another, it was seen that the seemingly good feelings of both the priests and the converts were more pretended than real; for a scene of great confusion and bad feeling ensued-- priest contending against priest, and convert against convert; so that all their good feelings one for another, if they ever had any, were entirely lost in a strife of words and a contest about opinions.

JS-H 1:7
I was at this time in my fifteenth year. My father's family was proselyted to the Presbyterian faith, and four of them joined that church, namely, my mother, Lucy; my brothers Hyrum and Samuel Harrison; and my sister Sophronia.

JS-H 1:8
During this time of great excitement my mind was called up to serious reflection and great uneasiness; but though my feelings were deep and often poignant, still I kept myself aloof from all these parties, though I attended their several meetings as often as occasion would permit. In process of time my mind became somewhat partial to the Methodist sect, and I felt some desire to be united with them; but so great were the confusion and strife among the different denominations, that it was impossible for a person young as I was, and so unacquainted with men and things, to come to any certain conclusion who was right and who was wrong.

JS-H 1:12
Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible.

JS-H 1:14
So, in accordance with this, my determination to ask of God, I retired to the woods to make the attempt. It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty. It was the first time in my life that I had made such an attempt, for amidst all my anxieties I had never as yet made the attempt to pray vocally.

JS-H 1:15
After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.

JS-H 1:18
My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)-- and which I should join.

JS-H 1:20
He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired what the matter was. I replied, "Never mind, all is well-- I am well enough off." I then said to my mother, "I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true." It seems as though the adversary was aware, at a very early period of my life, that I was destined to prove a disturber and an annoyer of his kingdom; else why should the powers of darkness combine against me? Why the opposition and persecution that arose against me, almost in my infancy?

JS-H 1:27
I continued to pursue my common vocations in life until the twenty-- first of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, all the time suffering severe persecution at the hands of all classes of men, both religious and irreligious, because I continued to affirm that I had seen a vision.

JS-H 1:28
During the space of time which intervened between the time I had the vision and the year eighteen hundred and twenty-three-- having been forbidden to join any of the religious sects of the day, and being of very tender years, and persecuted by those who ought to have been my friends and to have treated me kindly, and if they supposed me to be deluded to have endeavored in a proper and affectionate manner to have reclaimed me-- I was left to all kinds of temptations; and, mingling with all kinds of society, I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature; which, I am sorry to say, led me into divers temptations, offensive in the sight of God. In making this confession, no one need suppose me guilty of any great or malignant sins. A disposition to commit such was never in my nature. But I was guilty of levity, and sometimes associated with jovial company, etc., not consistent with that character which ought to be maintained by one who was called of God as I had been. But this will not seem very strange to any one who recollects my youth, and is acquainted with my native cheery temperament.

JS-H 1:42
Again, he told me, that when I got those plates of which he had spoken-- for the time that they should be obtained was not yet fulfilled-- I should not show them to any person; neither the breastplate with the Urim and Thummim; only to those to whom I should be commanded to show them; if I did I should be destroyed. While he was conversing with me about the plates, the vision was opened to my mind that I could see the place where the plates were deposited, and that so clearly and distinctly that I knew the place again when I visited it.

JS-H 1:46
By this time, so deep were the impressions made on my mind, that sleep had fled from my eyes, and I lay overwhelmed in astonishment at what I had both seen and heard. But what was my surprise when again I beheld the same messenger at my bedside, and heard him rehearse or repeat over again to me the same things as before; and added a caution to me, telling me that Satan would try to tempt me (in consequence of the indigent circumstances of my father's family), to get the plates for the purpose of getting rich. This he forbade me, saying that I must have no other object in view in getting the plates but to glorify God, and must not be influenced by any other motive than that of building his kingdom; otherwise I could not get them.

JS-H 1:47
After this third visit, he again ascended into heaven as before, and I was again left to ponder on the strangeness of what I had just experienced; when almost immediately after the heavenly messenger had ascended from me for the third time, the cock crowed, and I found that day was approaching, so that our interviews must have occupied the whole of that night.

JS-H 1:48
I shortly after arose from my bed, and, as usual, went to the necessary labors of the day; but, in attempting to work as at other times, I found my strength so exhausted as to render me entirely unable. My father, who was laboring along with me, discovered something to be wrong with me, and told me to go home. I started with the intention of going to the house; but, in attempting to cross the fence out of the field where we were, my strength entirely failed me, and I fell helpless on the ground, and for a time was quite unconscious of anything.

JS-H 1:53
I made an attempt to take them out, but was forbidden by the messenger, and was again informed that the time for bringing them forth had not yet arrived, neither would it, until four years from that time; but he told me that I should come to that place precisely in one year from that time, and that he would there meet with me, and that I should continue to do so until the time should come for obtaining the plates.

JS-H 1:54
Accordingly, as I had been commanded, I went at the end of each year, and at each time I found the same messenger there, and received instruction and intelligence from him at each of our interviews, respecting what the Lord was going to do, and how and in what manner his kingdom was to be conducted in the last days.

JS-H 1:57
During the time that I was thus employed, I was put to board with a Mr. Isaac Hale, of that place; it was there I first saw my wife (his daughter), Emma Hale. On the 18th of January, 1827, we were married, while I was yet employed in the service of Mr. Stoal.

JS-H 1:59
At length the time arrived for obtaining the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate. On the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, having gone as usual at the end of another year to the place where they were deposited, the same heavenly messenger delivered them up to me with this charge: that I should be responsible for them; that if I should let them go carelessly, or through any neglect of mine, I should be cut off; but that if I would use all my endeavors to preserve them, until he, the messenger, should call for them, they should be protected.

JS-H 1:61
The excitement, however, still continued, and rumor with her thousand tongues was all the time employed in circulating falsehoods about my father's family, and about myself. If I were to relate a thousandth part of them, it would fill up volumes. The persecution, however, became so intolerable that I was under the necessity of leaving Manchester, and going with my wife to Susquehanna county, in the State of Pennsylvania. While preparing to start-- being very poor, and the persecution so heavy upon us that there was no probability that we would ever be otherwise-- in the midst of our afflictions we found a friend in a gentleman by the name of Martin Harris, who came to us and gave me fifty dollars to assist us on our journey. Mr. Harris was a resident of Palmyra township, Wayne county, in the State of New York, and a farmer of respectability.

JS-H 1:62
By this timely aid was I enabled to reach the place of my destination in Pennsylvania; and immediately after my arrival there I commenced copying the characters off the plates. I copied a considerable number of them, and by means of the Urim and Thummim I translated some of them, which I did between the time I arrived at the house of my wife's father, in the month of December, and the February following.

JS-H 1:66
On the 5th day of April, 1829, Oliver Cowdery came to my house, until which time I had never seen him. He stated to me that having been teaching school in the neighborhood where my father resided, and my father being one of those who sent to the school, he went to board for a season at his house, and while there the family related to him the circumstances of my having received the plates, and accordingly he had come to make inquiries of me.

JS-H 1:72
The messenger who visited us on this occasion and conferred this Priesthood upon us, said that his name was John, the same that is called John the Baptist in the New Testament, and that he acted under the direction of Peter, James and John, who held the keys of the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which Priesthood, he said, would in due time be conferred on us, and that I should be called the first Elder of the Church, and he (Oliver Cowdery) the second. It was on the fifteenth day of May, 1829, that we were ordained under the hand of this messenger, and baptized.

JS-H 1:75
We had been threatened with being mobbed, from time to time, and this, too, by professors of religion. And their intentions of mobbing us were only counteracted by the influence of my wife's father's family (under Divine providence), who had become very friendly to me, and who were opposed to mobs, and were willing that I should be allowed to continue the work of translation without interruption; and therefore offered and promised us protection from all unlawful proceedings, as far as in them lay.