2 Nephi 30:7

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7 And it shall come to pass that the Jews which are scattered also shall begin to believe in Christ; and they shall begin to gather in upon the face of the land; and as many as shall believe in Christ shall also become a delightsome people.

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The Jews…shall begin to believe in Christ

Nephi writes of a time when “the Jews which are scattered also shall begin to believe in Christ.” As with his prophecy describing the conversion of the Lamanites, again he emphasizes a process rather than an event. History knows no people who have more tightly bound themselves with false traditions than the Jews. It appears from the latter-day revelation that the great conversion among the Jews will not take place until after Christ has set his foot upon the Mount of Olives and it has been split in two…

The work of gathering that will commence in the Millennium will be of such a magnitude that the extent of the gathering previously will hardly constitute a beginning by comparison.

R. Millet and J.F. McConkie, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon [salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987], 1:356-357