The Word Made Flesh
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29 · Berean Standard Bible
The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, 'Look — there He is! The Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!'
This is one of the most important declarations ever made. Jesus wasn't coming to conquer armies — He came to carry away your sin.
John the Baptist points directly at Jesus and gives Him His most profound title.
Everything John had been doing — all the preaching, all the baptizing — led to this single moment of pointing and saying, 'There He is.' The one the whole world was waiting for.
The next day, John sees Jesus approaching and declares Him 'the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world' (Greek: ho amnos tou theou ho airōn tēn hamartian tou kosmou).
The 'Lamb of God' title evokes multiple Old Testament backgrounds: the Passover lamb (Exodus 12), the suffering servant 'led like a lamb to slaughter' (Isaiah 53:7), and the daily temple sacrifice (tamid).
John the Baptist publicly identifies Jesus with the title 'Lamb of God.'
This is the Baptist's climactic declaration — the moment his entire ministry has been building toward. Jesus is identified not as a political deliverer but as a sacrificial lamb bearing the world's sin.
27He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
28All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
30This is He of whom I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’
31I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”
Read all of John 1 — John doesn't begin with a birth story. He begins with a cosmic declaration that echoes the first line of Genesis on purpose.
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