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I just added this to my Bus Booklet of Truth blog, but I wanted to put it here, as well, because I don't know if anybody actually looks at the other blog... And I think it's important.

"For many years I thought of the Savior’s experience in the garden and on the cross as places where a large mass of sin was heaped upon Him. Through the words of Alma, Abinadi, Isaiah, and other prophets, however, my view has changed. Instead of an impersonal mass of sin, there was a long line of people, as Jesus felt “our infirmities” (Hebrews 4:15), “[bore] our griefs, . . . carried our sorrows . . . [and] was bruised for our iniquities” (Isaiah 53:4–5).

"The Atonement was an intimate, personal experience in which Jesus came to know how to help each of us."

--Merrill J. Bateman, Ensign November 2005, "A Pattern For All"