bore the scars from his wounds. In fact, they have become his identifying marks (John 20:20–29). Songwriter Michael Card says Jesus is “known by the scars.” And it will always be that way. His scars are permanent—they are eternal scars. When the apostle John looked in his heavenly vision to see who would open the sealed scroll revealing the final course of history, he saw “a Lamb standing as if it had been slaughtered” (Revelation 5:6). Such was the price that Jesus, the Lamb of God (John 1:29),