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 uses sacrificial language—Lamb suggests Old Testament temple sacrifice.
But it's the Lamb of God—God's own offering. Not a human sacrifice to appease God. God offering God's self. The image carries the weight of all temple sacrifices and explains them as pointing toward this one self-offering.
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