6 Bible Verses about Vicarious Substitution
Most Relevant Verses
Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the bushes. So he took the ram and sacrificed it in place of his son.
Sir, I am your slave. Please let me stay here in place of Benjamin. Please let him return home with his brothers.
Out of all the Israelites, I have taken the Levites to be substitutes for every firstborn male offspring among them. The Levites are mine,
They will be the only Israelites given to me. I have taken them to be mine as substitutes for every firstborn male offspring of the Israelites. When I killed all the first-born in Egypt, I consecrated as my own the oldest son of each Israelite family and the first-born of every animal. I am now taking the Levites instead of all the first-born of the Israelites.
You do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people. That way the whole nation will not perish.
He did not say this from his own understanding. As high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.