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27 aIt is He who, coming after me,1 is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.”  
28 These things were done ain Bethabara beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.  

The Lamb of God

29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! aThe Lamb of God bwho takes away the sin of the world!  
30 This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who1 is preferred before me, for He was before me.’  
31 I did not know Him; but that He should be revealed to Israel, atherefore I came baptizing with water.”  
32 aAnd John bore witness, saying, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him.  
33 I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, athis is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’  
34 And I have seen and testified that this is the aSon of God.”  

The First Disciples

35 Again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples.
36 And looking at Jesus as He walked, he said, a“Behold the Lamb of God!”  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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John 1:29

seeth Jesus—fresh, probably, from the scene of the temptation.

coming unto him—as to congenial company (Acts 4:23), and to receive from him His first greeting.

and saith—catching a sublime inspiration at the sight of Him approaching.

the Lamb of God—the one God-ordained, God-gifted sacrificial offering.

that taketh away—taketh up and taketh away. The word signifies both, as does the corresponding Hebrew word. Applied to sin, it means to be chargeable with the guilt of it (Exodus 28:38; Leviticus 5:1; Ezekiel 18:20), and to bear it away (as often). In the Levitical victims both ideas met, as they do in Christ, the people's guilt being viewed as transferred to them, avenged in their death, and so borne away by them (Leviticus 4:15; Leviticus 16:15, Leviticus 16:21-22; and compare Isaiah 53:6-12; II Corinthians 5:21).

the sin—The singular number being used to mark the collective burden and all-embracing efficacy.

of the world—not of Israel only, for whom the typical victims were exclusively offered. Wherever there shall live a sinner throughout the wide world, sinking under that burden too heavy for him to bear, he shall find in this "Lamb of God," a shoulder equal to the weight. The right note was struck at the first—balm, doubtless, to Christ's own spirit; nor was ever after, or ever will be, a more glorious utterance.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 1:29:

Song of Solomon 4:1
Matthew 3:12
Luke 3:18
John 1:26
John 1:36
1 Corinthians 5:7
2 Corinthians 5:21
Philippians 4:3
1 Timothy 1:15
Hebrews 9:26
Revelation 5:6

 

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