Our Gospel lesson for today begins with one of the greatest encounters of all time … John the Baptist, coming face to face with Jesus—the One who will baptize not with just water, but with the Holy Spirit.  A preacher once said that in John’s simple announcement, for us  to, “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, “ we have a perfect summary of the entire Gospel… everything else is merely commentary. A sentence right here that speaks volumes.

 

But think about it, ‘Behold the Lamb of God!’ 

You see, today that expression does not have the grip on 21st century citizens that it did for the Hebrew people, especially those living over two-thousand years ago. That is because we do not see many lambs today, except for those of us who went to the Pennsylvania Farm Show; we are, today, certainly otherwise pretty far-removed from anything having to do with sheepherding.