6 Bible Verses about Vicarious Substitution
Most Relevant Verses
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
"Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine,
For they are wholly given to me from among the people of Israel. Instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the people of Israel, I have taken them for myself. For all the firstborn among the people of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself, and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel.
Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish."
He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,