看哪，上帝的羔羊。

約翰福音1:29 看哪，上帝的羔羊，除去世人罪孽的!

在此，約翰將人們的注意力從自己身上轉向基督。
他說：「這就是上帝的羔羊，他除去世界的罪孽。（按原文直譯）」
「儘管我先稱你們是罪人，判定你們一切的作為都為有罪，告訴你們必須對自己絕望。但是，你們不要對上帝絕望。看哪，我現在指給你們看，你們要怎樣除去你們所有的罪，得到拯救。」
「你自己不能脫去罪而得自由。你也不能藉著善行得以聖潔。你甚至都不能補償其中最小的一個罪。我也不能作到這點。這是另外一個人的工作。我把能夠作到這點的人指給你。此人就是這個耶穌基督，上帝的羔羊。天上和地上再沒有什麼人，唯有他將罪背在他身上。他不僅背負你的罪，而且是整個世界的罪。不是這世界一些的罪，而是整個世界所有的罪。無論大罪或小罪，無論多少，他都背負在自己身上。」
看哪！約翰的指頭，他把上帝的羔羊指給你看。
這就是真福音的講道和聆聽。
如果你可以相信約翰的聲音就是真理的先鋒，並跟隨著他指頭的方向，看那背負你罪的上帝羔羊，那麼你就已經贏得了勝利。你已經成為了一名基督徒，成為了戰勝罪、死亡、地獄、和萬物的主。你的良心必然歡喜，你將愛這溫柔的上帝的羔羊。——馬丁路德（將臨期第四主日講道，1522年）（WA 10.1:206f）

Behold The Lamb of God
John 1:29 Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Here John turns the people away from himself toward Christ, saying, “Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.” Through my teaching, he says, I have first made you sinners, condemning all your works and telling you that you must despair of yourselves. But in order that you should not likewise despair of God, behold, I will now show you how you can be rid of all your sins and attain salvation.
You cannot strip yourselves free from sin; neither can you make yourselves holy through good works. That is another person’s work. I cannot do it either, but i can point to him who can. He is this Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. He, and he alone, and no one else in heaven and on earth, takes sin upon himself, so fully that you yourself cannot even atone for the smallest sin. He must take upon himself alone not only your sin but the whole world’s sin; not some of the world’s sin, but all the sins of the world, be they great or small, many or few. This, then, is preaching and hearing the true gospel, and beholding the finger of John, that he may show you the Lamb of God.
If you can believe that this voice of John is a harbinger of truth and follow the direction of his finger and behold the Lamb of God bearing your sin, you have won the victory. You have become a Christian, a master over sin and death and hell and all things. And so your conscience is gladdened, and you will love the gentle Lamb of God.
(Sermon for the 4th Sunday in Advent, 1522)(WA 10.1:206f)

Photo is from jrforasteros.com.
English text is taken from Day by Day We Magnify You, Revised Edition, Augsburg Books, 2008, p.35, ISBN #9780806680149