Throughout the four Gospels we hear the phrase “it is written” quite a bit. This phrase is meant to direct our hearts back to the Old Testament: to see that what was written then was being fulfilled in Christ. God’s work of salvation that our Lord completed on the cross was not a happenstance, but an event that was orchestrated from the beginning. In our lesson for this week Fr. Ward shares a couple of the Old Testament passages that point to Christ’s death and helps us see Jesus as the promised Lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world.