Behold - Your Healer!

John 1:29

29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
NKJV

1 Peter 2:24

24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness -- by whose stripes you were healed.
NKJV

My Comments:

In the first chapter of John's Gospel, we see how John the Baptist (who's different from the Gospel writer John by the way) described Jesus the first time he saw Him; as the Lamb of God who bore all our sins. Jesus, as the Son of God, was also the sacrificial offering made once and for all for us, that we could be reconciled back to God. The Bible also says that He was made an offering even before the world was made as we know it (Revelation 13:8).

We also know that the Bible says that He took our sins, and He took our sicknesses upon His own body at Calvary. And that as children of God, we can boldly come to God for bodily healing when we need it.

Notice however how John starts it off by exclaiming "Behold!" The Greek word used here is the word 'ide' which is the active version of the word 'eido'. The word 'eido' has many meanings; one of which is behold, but some of the others are as follows:

to - be aware, consider, have knowledge, look on, perceive, understand,

By inserting the alternative meanings above into John 1:29, we can see that John the Baptist was not merely making an exclamation of surprise when he saw Jesus for the first time, he was exhorting the people around him to be aware of Jesus as the Lamb; to consider Him as their offering for their sin, to understand His purpose for coming, to have knowledge that their sins were to be forgiven because of Him, etc!

But not only are we to be aware that Jesus is the Lamb of God who took our sins, we must also be aware that He took our sicknesses upon Himself! We must consider His sacrifice that we could be made whole physically, to understand that by His stripes we are healed, and to have knowledge that we can trust Him for our healing!

So just look to Jesus and as John said, Behold Him, the Lamb who takes our sins and sicknesses!