Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire — with the head, legs and internal organs. The specificity of how the lamb is to be consumed — whole, roasted, nothing excluded — ensures that the Passover lamb is consumed in its completeness. Not just the choice cuts, not just the external parts, but the head, the legs, the internal organs — everything. John 19:36 notes that not one of Jesus' bones was broken, fulfilling the Passover regulation in Exodus 12:46 — the completeness of the Passover lamb points forward to the completeness of the sacrifice of Christ. What is offered to God and consumed in God's presence is given completely; nothing is withheld, nothing set aside. The whole lamb is the whole offering, the whole offering is the complete atonement.

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