The five who went to see about the judge weren’t believers, they were opportunists. They ran to the judgement seat expecting to prove Nephi wrong but confident that they would know one way or another of he was a prophet. They are the type of people who would have believed Jeremiah as soon as they saw Jerusalem fall. They would have believed Moses when they saw people get well after glancing at the brazen serpent.
Others like those five had a similar experience when questioning Seantum. They probably didn’t believe Nephi before but they did afterward.
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