The next day John saw Jesus. John [the apostle] omits all of Jesus' personal life up to this point. Jesus is now thirty years old, and walked from Galilee to the Jordan River area where John the Baptist is doing his work (about 60 or 70 miles distance). This conversation was after Jesus' baptism (John 1:33), and probably after the Temptation. Here is the Lamb of God. A lamb was the common "SIN OFFERING" (see Leviticus 4:32). What John says points to Jesus as the "SIN OFFERING" for the whole world. Compare the language in Isaiah 53:7. The sin of the world. Both Jews and Gentiles!

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Old Testament