John 1:29

1:29 On the next day John ¹  saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God ²  who takes away the sin of the world!

John 6:44

6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, ³  and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 12:48

12:48 The one who rejects me and does not accept ⁴  my words has a judge; ⁵  the word ⁶  I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

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

² 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).

³ tn Or “attracts him,” or “pulls him.” The word is used of pulling or dragging, often by force. It is even used once of magnetic attraction (A. Oepke, TDNT 2:503).

⁵ tn Or “does not receive.”

⁶ tn Grk “has one who judges him.”

⁷ tn Or “message.”