Kejadian 22:13
Konteks22:13 Abraham looked up 1 and saw 2 behind him 3 a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he 4 went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Yohanes 1:29
Konteks1:29 On the next day John 5 saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God 6 who takes away the sin of the world!
[22:13] 1 tn Heb “lifted his eyes.”
[22:13] 2 tn Heb “and saw, and look.” The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) draws attention to what Abraham saw and invites the audience to view the scene through his eyes.
[22:13] 3 tc The translation follows the reading of the MT; a number of Hebrew
[22:13] 4 tn Heb “Abraham”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[1:29] 5 tn Grk “he”; the referent (John) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
[1:29] 6 sn Gen 22:8 is an important passage in the background of the title Lamb of God as applied to Jesus. In Jewish thought this was held to be a supremely important sacrifice. G. Vermès stated: “For the Palestinian Jew, all lamb sacrifice, and especially the Passover lamb and the Tamid offering, was a memorial of the Akedah with its effects of deliverance, forgiveness of sin and messianic salvation” (Scripture and Tradition in Judaism [StPB], 225).