Verse 19
but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, even the blood of Christ:
Again, Peter appropriates the corresponding Old Testament figure in describing the glorious redemption of the Christians. As Polkinghorne said:
The Passover lamb (Exodus), as the sacrifice whereby Israel was delivered from bondage and separated to the Lord, is richly significant in context, as is also the lamb of Isaiah 53, the passage so largely quoted in 1 Peter 2:22-25.[49]
But with precious blood ... This passage, with the preceding verse, sets forth Christ as the paschal lamb for Christians and describes the nature of the ransom price. Christ's purpose of redeeming people was the great motivation of coming into the world.
<SIZE=2>WHY CHRIST CAME
He came to save us from our sins (Matthew 1:21).
He came to give his life a ransom for many (Mark 10:45).
He came to suffer and rise again (Luke 24:46; Matthew 20:28).
He came to take away the sins of the world (John 1:29).
He came to be a propitiation for sin (Romans 3:25).
He came that we might receive the reconciliation (Romans 5:11).
He came to buy us with a price (1 Corinthians 6:19).
He came to give himself a ransom for all (1 Timothy 2:5).
He came that he might redeem us from all iniquity (Titus 2:14).
He came that he might purify unto himself a people (Titus 2:17).
He came to make propitiation for the sins of the people (Hebrews 2:17).
He came to bear the sins of many (Hebrews 9:27).
He came to put away sins by the sacrifice of himself (Hebrews 9:26).
He came to offer one sacrifice for sins forever (Hebrews 10:12).
He came to redeem us with his blood (1 Peter 1:18).
He came to bear our sins in his body on the tree (2 Peter 2:24).
He came to suffer for sins that he might bring us to God (2 Peter 3:18).
He came to be the propitiation for our sins (2 John 1:2:2; 4:10).
He came to be the propitiation for the sins of the whole world.
He came to take away sins (1 John 3:5).
He came to loose us from our sins by his blood (Revelation 1:5).
Therefore, salvation by the blood of Christ is the crimson thread that runs from Matthew to Revelation, and there is no adequate theology that fails to take this into consideration.
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