PUZZLE #29 - Carry My Stuff

Consider these two texts:

"And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain." (3rd Nephi 5:41)
"And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain." (Matthew 5:41)

(3rd Nephi 5:41 is on page 433 of the Book of Mormon)

Times were tough; the Roman empire held the holyland, and Roman troops freely moved through the streets and through the countryside. In His sermon on the mount, Jesus spoke to the Jews and to the Galileans, giving them hope and encouragement, as well as practical ways of dealing with their situation.

It is no wonder that the Book of Mormon story contains exactly the same message of hope and encouragement. In fact, as we see here, the words of most of the verses
are exactly the same as those that we find in Matthew's account. We must surmise that Jesus had the message memorized, after all, He had given the sermon on the
mount just a short time before he supposedly came to America.

Is that really what happened, or did the 1830 authors of the Book of Mormon just copy the words out of the Bible? If that's what they did, we would find this kind
of verbatim quoting, and we might even encounter such things as these verses being numbered the same.

We might also find things in the Book of Mormon that don't fit for the people of that story. Such is the case of 3rd Nephi 12:41.

Roman law, governing the Roman empire and the people of Rome's subjugated nations, made requirements of those people. One of Rome's laws stated that a Roman soldier
could compel any person on the street to help him carry his gear. A Roman soldier, weighted down with heavy armor, could get some relief as he walked along the way.

This law had one limitation; the Roman soldier could only compel a person to help him carry his things for one mile, and hence, Jesus' admonition to the Judean people. He told the people that they should do more than they were required to do, and when he used this situation as an example, the Judean people understood His meaning.

What could the words of Matthew 5:41 have meant to the Nephites? That's a PUZZLE. I imagine them standing there wondering what in the world Jesus was talking about; being compelled to help someone carry their things? What did He mean? It is an obvious indication that this passage was but copied from the Bible in order to lend validity to the fake text and perhaps even fill up some more pages after they ran out of ideas.

Was the Book of Mormon written by people living two millennia ago in the Americas?