1 Peter 1:19
“But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The ransom was paid by the precious blood of Christ, the spotless, unblemished Lamb.
What Does 1 Peter 1:19 Mean?
Here is the price Peter has been leading toward. Not silver, but blood; not a thing, but a Person. He names Christ as the Lamb, recalling the spotless animals required for sacrifice in Israel.
Without blemish and without spot describes both the offering of old and the One it pointed to. Jesus alone was wholly without sin, and so his life alone could ransom others. Peter calls the blood precious, the only word fit for it. What gold could never buy, the Lamb purchased with himself. The believer's freedom rests on that costly love.
In the Original Language
amnos (ἀμνός), 'lamb' -- a sacrificial lamb, the term used of Christ as the offering for sin.