What did Yokhanan (a.k.a. John the Baptist) mean when he told his disciples that Yeshua was “the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world”? What does it have to do with Passover and the day the Passover lamb is selected?
Tag: lamb
Passover is an annual memorial of the LORD’s deliverance of Israel from bondage, but the focus is the lamb and Who the lamb represents: He Who was pierced to give us freedom and a new life in communion with God.
At the time of the Exodus, YHWH (God’s personal name in Hebrew, often translated as “the LORD”) told the people of Israel to have a “lamb for a household” (Exodus 12:3). Usually 10 people could manage to consume a whole lamb. Smaller groups joined together to form a chaverim, Hebrew for “a group of friends,” and that formed a mishpokhah, “a family group.” Paul talks about believers being the “household of God” (1st Timothy 3:15) because there is a “lamb for the household.”