with a lamb of offering. The simile of the lamb does not refer here, however, to Isa. 53:7—although this text is appropriated in the next christological section (1 Pet. 2:22)—but incorporates the tradition that characterizes Jesus as the Passover lamb.54 The death of the Passover lambs was regarded in rabbinic Judaism as an atonement offering making possible the redemption from Egypt.55 Here in I Peter the release from prison is not a release from guilt for sin, as in Isaiah 53. Jesus’ death, the