The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;

Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.

And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.

And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.

Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.

For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;

Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;