Testify

Licensed in 2012 for use as album artwork for a Christian rock band.
Oil on hardboard, 16×20 inches (41x51cm), June 14, 2012

Alma the Elder leans with back against a wall outside the king’s audience chamber, struggling to hear the prophet Abinadi’s testimony before King Noah. Now a hunted man himself, he has tried to protect the prophet who now glowing with the same Heavenly light that shone from Moses. Alma will go on to escape, record Abinadi’s words, and use them to help found the Nephite church.

From the Book of Mormon, Mosiah 17:1-4, pg 179. The story starts in Mosiah chapter 11, pg 167.

One of my Book of Mormon Paintings.