📖1:29–34 This passage is read on January 7, the Feast of the Synaxis of St. John the Baptist. 1:29 John’s declaring Jesus as the Lamb of God recalls Isaiah’s “Servant of God” who dies for the transgressions of His people (Is 53:4–12). Christ, the true Paschal (Passover) Lamb, offers Himself for our deliverance from darkness and death (1Pt 1:18, 19). St. John Chrysostom teaches that Jesus came to John this second time in order for John to make this declaration and thus stop anyone from thinking that