“Behold the Lamb of God”

JOHN 1:29

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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When John the Baptist sees Jesus approaching to get baptised he proclaims “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”

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The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

— John 1:29

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Behold Ἴδε Used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent G3700 and G3708; properly, to see (literally or figuratively); by implication, (in the perfect tense only) to know G1492
the The (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom) G3588
Lamb ἀμνὸς A lamb G286
of God, θεοῦ A deity, especially (with G3588) the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; exceedingly (by Hebraism) G2316

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