And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
And looking, [ emblepsas (G1689 ), fixing his eyes with significant gaze] upon Jesus as he walked.
Observe, it is not said this time that Jesus was coming to John. To have done that once (John 1:29) was humility enough, as Bengel notes. But John saw Him simply "walking" х peripatounti (G4043)], as if in solitary meditation; yet evidently designing to bring about that interview with two of John's disciples which was to be properly His first public act. He saith, Behold the Lamb of God! The repetition, in brief, of that wonderful proclamation, in identical terms and without an additional word, was meant both as a gentle hint to go after Him, and to fix the light in which they were to regard Him. And it had the desired effect-as we are now to hear.