The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
C. Christ removes sin far away.  He takes away the guilt, the penalty and the practice of sin.  He is the sin-bearer for all humanity.  God "laid upon him the iniquity of us all"  (Isaiah 53:6).  He bore our sins in his own body on the tree, thus accomplishing what no typical lamb ever achieved. Only in Christ Jesus is there an effective de-contaminator for human transgression.  In the tragic sleep-walking scene from Shakespeare's Macbeth, following the murder of the king, Lady Macbeth cried because of the blood on her hand: