Exodus 12:5
12:5 Your lamb must be
perfect,
a male, one year old;
you may take
it from the sheep or from the goats.
Isaiah 53:7
53:7 He was treated harshly and afflicted,
but he did not even open his mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block,
like a sheep silent before her shearers,
he did not even open his mouth.
John 1:29
1:29 On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:36
1:36 Gazing at Jesus as he walked by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
Acts 8:32-35
8:32 Now the passage of scripture the man
was reading was this:
“He was led like a sheep to slaughter,
and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8:33 In humiliation justice was taken from him.
Who can describe his posterity?
For his life was taken away from the earth.”
8:34 Then the eunuch said to Philip, “Please tell me, who is the prophet saying this about – himself or someone else?”
8:35 So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.
Acts 8:1
8:1 And Saul agreed completely with killing
him.
Saul Begins to Persecute the Church
Now on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.
Colossians 1:7-8
1:7 You learned the gospel
from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave
– a
faithful minister of Christ on our
behalf –
1:8 who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
Revelation 5:6
5:6 Then I saw standing in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb that appeared to have been killed. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
Revelation 7:14
7:14 So
I said to him, “My lord, you know the answer.”
Then
he said to me, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They
have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!
Revelation 14:1
An Interlude: The Song of the 144,000
14:1 Then I looked, and here was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were one hundred and forty-four thousand, who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.