What does the Bible say about Jesus as a lamb without a spot or blemish?

Answer 1

A:The synoptic gospels have Jesus crucified on the day after the Passover feast, and therefore do no draw close parallels between Jesus and the Paschal lamb. However, John's Gospel changes the chronology so that the crucifixion takes place on the day of preparation for the Passover (John 19:14). Instead of being crucified at the third hour, 9 o'clock in the morning, he is not sent for crucifixion until the sixth hour (12 o'clock) so that his sacrifice takes place in the afternoon, when tradition required the lambs to be sacrificed for the Passover feast.

Jewish rules required the Paschal lamb to be unblemished and with no broken bones. Thus, John emphasises that, whereas the Roman guards broke the legs of the other two to hasten their deaths, they saw that Jesus was already dead and so simply speared him in the side. Thus Jesus was without spot or blemish and with no broken bones.

1 Peter 1:19, written later in the second century, follows John's account, "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:"

Another Answer:

Exodus 12:5 begins the instruction for the unblemished lamb which pointed to Jesus Christ, however, the Israelites as a whole, did not understand this at that time.

Then the Scripture in John 1:29 has John the Baptist, seeing Jesus, and calling Him 'The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.'

In is vitally important that the reader understand the Holy Days of God and the way the Jews kept time/days. Firstly, Passover was a Feast Day that began one day before the High Sabbath of the 'Days of Unleavened Bread' - a 7 day Feast with the 1st day being a Sabbath. Now for the Jews, the day is measured from sunset to the following sunset. With this information, we can now understand the timeline better.

Jesus ate the Passover meal, now called the Last Supper by many, at the beginning of sunset or the start of Passover. He was tried and crucified by the 6th hour - this is noon by Jewish custom but is 6:00 AM in Roman time. But for Jews, this is still Passover day until sunset. He dies in the 9th hour or 3:00 PM and is buried before sunset, the start of the Sabbath beginning of the Days of Unleavened Bread. So the whole horrific event took place on the Passover, which is also the Preparation Day for the next Feast's Sabbath.

John 19:14New King James Version (NKJV)

14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"

Now the lamb without spot or blemish represents a sinless person, which Jesus was the only such person. Hebrews 2:17-18; 4:15 speak to this. And as noted, 1 Peter 1:19; 2:22 calls Jesus the lamb 'without blemish or spot.'