What Is Nephi's Rule?

45% of the Book of Jacob by verse count is taken up in chapter 5, and then a brief chapter in chapter 6 when Jacob does some of his own commentary on what he's just taught us. This is for Christ's sake, that Jacob is spending so much time on this. Now again, why do it though? Joseph Smith talked about having a key to understanding Scripture. In other words, whenever Joseph Smith was studying parables particularly, it was like he was playing Jeopardy. He needed to formulate the question. So to understand what Jacob is doing in turning to Zenis and this allegory of the olive tree, what was the question on Jacob's mind that Jacob 5