Matius 27:31

27:31 When ¹  they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then ²  they led him away to crucify him.

Yohanes 1:29

1:29 On the next day John ³  saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God ⁴  who takes away the sin of the world!

[27:31]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[27:31]  ² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[1:29]  ³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (John) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[1:29]  ⁴ 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).