What does mean exactely the Lamb of God?

Answer 1

Paschal Lamb
A lamb which the Israelites were commanded to eat with peculiar rites as a part of the Passover celebration. The Divine ordinance is first recorded in Exodus, xii, 3-11, where Yahweh is represented as giving instructions to Moses to preserve the Hebrews from the last of the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians, viz. the death of the firstborn. On the tenth day of the first month each family (or group of families, if they are small) is commanded to take a lamb without blemish, male, of one year, and keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, and sacrifice it in the evening. The blood of the lamb must be sprinkled on the transom and doorposts of the houses in which the paschal meal is taken. The lamb should be roasted and eaten with unleavened bread and wild lettuce.

The whole of the lamb must be consumed -- head, feet, and entrails -- and if any thing remain of it until morning it must be burned with fire. The Israelites are commanded to eat the meal in haste, with girded loins, shoes on their feet, and staves in their hands "for it is the Phase (that is, Passage) of the Lord." The blood of the lamb on the doorposts served as a sign of immunity or protection against the destroying hand of the Lord, who smote in one night all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. This ordinance is repeated in abridged form in Numbers xix, 11, 12, and again in Deuteronomy, xvi, 2-6, where sheep and oxen are mentioned instead of the lamb.

That the Paschal Lamb prefigured symbolically Christ, "the Lamb of God", who redeemed the world by the shedding of His blood, and particularly the Eucharistic banquet, or new Passover, has always remained the constant belief of Christian tradition.

Answer 2

The Synoptic Gospels state that Jesus arranged to eat his last meal, commonly called The Last Supper, with the twelve apostles (Matthew 26:17-20, Mark 14:12-17, Luke 22:7-14). They present this last meal as a seder although no Gospel ever mentions that a lamb (Exodus 12:26-27) or bitter herbs (Exodus 12:8, Numbers 9:11) was part of the meal. The earliest New Testament reference to this meal is by Paul (1 Corinthians 11:23-25). He makes no connection between the last meal and the seder. The Synoptic Gospels describe only the Last Supper in a Passover context, never giving any indication in their respective accounts of the arrest, trials, crucifixion, death, and burial of Jesus that the day following this meal is Passover.

In the context of an alleged Passover prisoner release custom the phrase "at a/the feast" appears (Matthew 27:15, Mark 15:6, and the interpolation Luke 23:17) but gives no indication of whether this was to take place before or during the festival. The phrase may refer to any day during the festival and does not specify any one day in particular. The author of Mark, the earliest of the Synoptic Gospels, turned the meal into a seder with the comment: "And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover [lamb] was being sacrificed, his disciples said to him [Jesus], 'Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?'" (Mark 14:12). From the sequence of events presented in the Gospels it would appear that the last meal occurred on a Thursday evening prior to Jesus' execution the next afternoon (that is, either on 14 Nisan or 15 Nisan).

While the Synoptic Gospels portray the Last Supper as a Passover seder (15 Nisan), John's Gospel dates the Last Supper a day earlier (14 Nisan), making it a regular meal. The author of John has no intention of equating the Last Supper with the seder. At the beginning of his Gospel, he has John the Baptist identify Jesus as the "lamb of God" (John 1:29). He now depicts Jesus as dying on the afternoon before the beginning of the Passover festival, at the same time as the lambs were being sacrificed in the Temple: "Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour (John 19:14). Apparently, either the Synoptic Gospels wanted to turn Jesus' last meal into a seder or John wanted to link Jesus' death with the slaughter of the paschal lambs.

In any case, although all the Gospels agree that Jesus' death occurred on a Friday, neither date or only one date can be historically correct. From the Gospels respective accounts we cannot know when Jesus died--the afternoon before Passover or the afternoon of the first day of the festival. It is also possible that Jesus' execution may have taken place on another day (Mark 14:1-2). Acceptance of one version over the other does not solve the issue of the historicity of either one. That is, there is no question of the historical existence of conflicting traditions but there is a question as to the historicity of the events they portray.

Answer 3

It is symbolism. Prior to being born in the flesh God set up a system of worship that pointed to the coming of Christ. In this system an unblemished lamb was sacrificed for the atonement of sins. When Christ died he was the end of the ceremonial system therefore there was no need for animal sacrifice. Therefore, Christ was said to be the Lamb of God.

Answer 4

In the old testament Jewish life, the lamb was the animal sacrificed in order to attain forgiveness from God for sin.

Since Jesus Christ came to earth for the purpose of sacrificing himself as the final payment for the sin of mankind in order to satisfy the wrath of Holy God towards sin He is called the Lamb of God.

Answer 5

In the old testament, the Israelites sacrificed a young lamb who was the best out of all that they had in order to atone for their sins. They had to continually sacrifice lambs, but Jesus came as the ultimate lamb to be sacrificed. He was sent by God to be our sacrificial lamb. He is the only perfect man who ever existed; so he had to sacrifice himself for us, just like they sacrificed a lamb for their since. He only had to sacrifice himself once in order to insure our salvation. All you have to do is accept him, ask him to be in your life, and forgive your sins.

Answer 6

from what i understand, it means this: Before Jesus came, people used to sacrifice a perfect lamb or whatever to repent for sins to get forgivness, like giving up something as a show of apology ....Jesus came as the "ultimate sacrifice so that people wouldnt need to do that anymore, he came and died on the cross to be the sacrifice for everones sins so that there woulnt be anything to stop us from being forgiven for sins we do, if we are sorry and accept that jesus sacrific was for us and accept that we are forgiven? something like that? Is that what u mean?

Answer 7

It's a direct reference to the sacrifice of jewish eastern, also to the episode of exodus about the protection of the hebrew first born. But even before those reference it's the revelation of Jesus as Isaia's suffering servant.

Answer 8

Lamb of God is Jesus Christ

Latin version:Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.




Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world, grant us peace.

Answer 9

L'Agneau de Dieu. Révèle Celui que dieu a choisi d'immoler.