Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hi friends, welcome back to another

episode of A Year in the Bible. I am Beth and I am here with my co-host Alexa.

Hey everyone, today we are annotating John 129 through 34, so let me go ahead and read that for us.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

This is the one I told you about. After me comes a man who

ranks ahead of me because he existed before me. I didn't know him, but it came baptizing

with water so that he might be revealed to Israel. And John testified, I saw the spirit

descending from heaven like a dove and he rested on him. I didn't know him, but he who sent

me to baptize with water told me, the one you see

the spirit descending and resting on, he is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. I have seen and

testify that this is the son of God. Okay, so Beth, how did these annotations go for you? Yeah, it was good. I

really appreciated the third prompt in today's study, which had to

circle all of the ways that Jesus is described in this passage. So the different things that I

circled were the Lamb of God. I circled that he ranks ahead of me, that he existed before me,

and then I circled the description of the

son of God. And so what this prompt really showed me was that although this passage emphasizes

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