(Isa. 53:11–12)
Christ certainly did know and feel the “travail of his soul,” an anguish commencing in the garden of Gethsemane, where he “began to be sorrowful and very heavy … even unto death.” He prayed so earnestly through the depths of that agony that his sweat became “as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” Later he would describe the experience of that suffering: “[It] caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit–and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink.”
But he was faithful to the end, “satisfied” in its most literal, legal sense, having made reparation and restitution sufficient to appease the demands of justice. Because he “poured out his soul unto death” bearing the “sin of many,” he received the inheritance of the great, sitting on the right hand of God, where all that the Father has was given him. True to his nature and true to his covenant, Christ will share that divine inheritance with all others who will be strong in keeping the commandments, thus making them “heirs of the kingdom of God” in precisely the way Abinadi declared this doctrine to King Noah.
For such merciful protection and glorious promises we must never again “hide our faces from him and esteem him not.”
(Jeffrey R. Holland, Christ and the New Covenant [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1997], 94.)
His soul was made an offering for the sins of many whom he would one day see and own. The many would be those who had chosen to seek and know him and give away their sins to become like him. The day would come when he, as heir, would divide all he had been given with those who had willingly taken upon them his name.
(Ann Madsen, “What Meaneth the Words that Are Written?” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, vol. 10, no. 1:10.)