John 1:29

On the next day John ¹  saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God ²  who takes away the sin of the world!

Ge 22:7,8; Ex 12:3-13; Ex 28:38; Le 10:17; Le 16:21,22; Nu 18:1,23; Nu 28:3-10; Isa 53:7; Isa 53:11; Ho 14:2; Mt 20:28; Joh 1:36; Ac 8:32; Ac 13:39; 1Co 15:3; 2Co 5:21; Ga 1:4; Ga 3:13; 1Ti 2:6; Tit 2:14; Heb 1:3; Heb 2:17; Heb 9:28; 1Pe 1:19; 1Pe 2:24; 1Pe 3:18; 1Jo 2:2; 1Jo 3:5; 1Jo 4:10; Re 1:5; Re 5:6,8,12,13; Re 6:1,16; Re 7:9,10,14,17; Re 12:11; Re 13:8; Re 14:1,4,10; Re 15:3; Re 17:14; Re 19:7,9; Re 21:9,14,22,23,27; Re 22:1-3

¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (John) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

² sn Gen 22:8 is an important passage in the background of the title Lamb of God as applied to Jesus. In Jewish thought this was held to be a supremely important sacrifice. G. Vermès stated: “For the Palestinian Jew, all lamb sacrifice, and especially the Passover lamb and the Tamid offering, was a memorial of the Akedah with its effects of deliverance, forgiveness of sin and messianic salvation” (Scripture and Tradition in Judaism [StPB], 225).