Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'authority' occurs 117 times in the standard works.

33 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'authority' in the standard works and contain 28.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 13 minutes to read the entire list.

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Matt. 21:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

Mark 11:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 60:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 20:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 1:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 5:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 5:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 42:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 18:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 24:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 11:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 60:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 2 0 2
NT 35 0 35
BM 47 0 47
1 Ne. 1 0 1
2 Ne. 2 0 2
W of M 1 0 1
Mosiah 12 0 12
Alma 16 0 16
Hel. 6 0 6
3 Ne. 4 0 4
4 Ne. 1 0 1
Ether 2 0 2
Moro. 2 0 2
DC 32 0 32
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 117 0 117

W of M 1:17
For behold, king Benjamin was a holy man, and he did reign over his people in righteousness; and there were many holy men in the land, and they did speak the word of God with power and with authority; and they did use much sharpness because of the stiffneckedness of the people--