Where is the lamb?
That is what Isaac asked his father Abraham, shortly before he was almost sacrificed on an altar. Abraham answered his son, “God will provide the lamb.”
The Lamb Who Was Slain
About 1500 years later, Isaac’s question was definitively answered just off a road full of pilgrims taking their lambs to Jerusalem for Passover. It was answered when John the Baptist said: “Behold, the Lamb.”
But, as Bishop Sheen wrote:
He wasn’t the people’s lamb, or the lamb of the Jews…but the Lamb of God. When the lamb was finally sacrificed it wasn’t because he was a victim of those who were stronger than him, but rather because he was fulfilling his willing duty of love for sinners. It was not man who offered this sacrifice, although it was man who slew the victim; it was God who gave himself. (LOC, 70) ….
