John 1:29

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

because He was prior to me: and of His fulness have all we received."[102]

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

Behold the Lamb of God!"[48]

Fragments of Clement Found in the Oxford Edition

And the fat and unctuous food,-the delicacies abundant and sufficing of the blessed,-the fatted calf is killed; which is also again spoken of as a lamb (not literally); that no one may suppose it small; but it is the great and greatest. For not small is "the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world,"[8]

Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

but withal, by pointing out "the Lamb of God,"[178]

Tertullian Against Praxeas

Then, again, when He is designated by John (the Baptist) as "the Lamb of God,"[247]

Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies

came down on Jesus;[66]

Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments

For after the return of the people from Babylon under the leadership of Jesus the son of Josedech, and Ezra the scribe, and Zerubbabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of David, there were 434 years unto the coming of Christ, in order that the Priest of priests might be manifested in the world, and that He who taketh away the sins of the world might be evidently set forth, as John speaks concerning Him: "Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!"[169]

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments

so Antichrist is also a king. The Saviour was manifested as a lamb;[26]

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments

After this, at the Jordan, seeing the Saviour with his own eye, he points Him out, and says, "Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!"[101]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the Gospel: "On the next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, and behold Him that taketh away the sins of the world!"[227]

Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus Fourth Homily

I Extend Thy dread right hand, which Thou hast prepared for Thyself, and crown my head by Thy touch, in order that I may run the course before Thy kingdom, crowned like a forerunner, and diligently announce the good tidings to the sinners, addressing them with this earnest call: "Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!"[17]

Gospel of Nicodemus II The Descent of Christ into Hell

And the Son of God came to me; and I, seeing Him a long way off, said to the people: Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world.[5]

Origen Commentary on John Book I

Must we also show that the old Scripture is not Gospel, since it does not point out the Coming One, but only foretells Him and heralds His coming at a future time; but that all the new Scripture is the Gospel. It not only says as in the beginning of the Gospel,[17]

Origen Commentary on John Book I "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself; "of which world Jesus bore the sin; for it is of the world of the Church that the word is written,[24]

Origen Commentary on John Book I

In addition to these one might collect in the Gospels and the Apostles and in the prophets a countless number of titles which are applied to the Son of God, as the writers of the Gospels set forth their own views of what He is, or the Apostles extol Him out of what they had learned, or the prophets proclaim in advance His coining advent and announce the things concerning Him under various names. Thus John calls Him the Lamb of God, saying,[105]

Origen Commentary on John Book I

Since, then, He takes away sin until every enemy shall be destroyed and death last of all, in order that the whole world may be free from sin, therefore John points to Him and says:[166]

Origen Commentary on John Book VI "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him."[142]

Origen Commentary on John Book VI "And he sayeth, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."[148]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII

Bat another will say not merely that, but also collecting the passages together, will say that the Son is first delivered up by God,-then about to be tempted, then to be in conflict, then to suffer for men, or even for the whole world that He might take away its sin,[62]