29The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-36)We have in these verses an account of John’s testimony concerning Jesus Christ, which he witnessed to his own disciples that followed him. As soon as ever Christ was baptized he was immediately hurried into the wilderness, to be tempted ; and there he was forty days. During his absence John had continued to bear testimony to him, and to tell the people of him; but now at last he sees Jesus coming…
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