Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
John 1:29
The next day John seeth Jesus. Here Jesus first appears, in person,
in John's account, who omits all the details given by Matthew and Luke
of his earlier life. He was now thirty years old, and came from Galilee
to Jordan to be baptized of John. This interview was after the baptism
(John 1:33), and probably after the Temptation.
Behold the Lamb of God. Innocent like the lamb, to be offered as
a lamb, "led as a lamb to the slaughter" (Isaiah 53:7). The lamb was
commonly used as a sin offering (Leviticus 4:32), and when John points to
Jesus as "the" Lamb of God he can only mean that God had provided him
as a sacrificial offering.
The sin of the world. Not of Jews only, but of Gentiles. John points
to Jesus as the world's Savior.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 4:12
Matthew 4:18
Matthew 4:21
John 1:29
John 1:35
John 1:36
John 5:33
Romans 8:3
1 Peter 1:19
1 Peter 1:20
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