John 1:2929The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29).-When the Lord came into the world sin lay at the base of its all;-and even all the divine actings were framed upon this sad truth, that man was in rebellion,-in himself sinful and surrounded by sin. The Lord came: Himself the very expression of what God was and is-that His ways and His thoughts are not as man's ways and man's thoughts: the one, through whom and by whom, a new order was to be introduced -Himself, through His finished work, to be the base and center of an entirely new state of things.
The Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world.-It is not said, "who took"-nor is it said, "the sins"-but, taking away-the sin-of the world.