John 1:29: "The next day he [John the Baptist] saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, 'Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!'"
John 1:36: "and he [John the Baptist] looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, 'Behold, the Lamb of God!'"
John 13:1-9: "1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, 'Lord, do you wash my feet?' 7 Jesus answered him, 'What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.' 8 Peter said to him, 'You shall never wash my feet.' Jesus answered him, 'If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.' 9 Simon Peter said to him, 'Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!'"
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The name "Lamb of God" from the two citations from John 1 appears in the first verse in the line: "Lamb of God, foretold for ages."
The text from John 13 is the basis of the hymn, although there seems to be quite a bit of poetic license involved. "Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end" from verse 1 seems to be rendered in the hymn's second verse as "Longing with tormented heart / To be with Your dear ones only / For a quiet hour apart." The rest of the cited portion is summarized at the end of the second verse: "One last paschal meal to eat, / One last lesson as their teacher, / Washing Your disciples' feet."
The third verse mentions the Eucharist, with the Words of Institution appearing at the end: "'Do this in remembrance of Me, / Eat this body, drink this blood.'" While all of the Biblical citations are from John, this is the only Gospel without an account of the institution of the Lord's Supper. It appears in Matthew 26, Mark 14, and Luke 22.
"All one body, You the head" in the fourth verse is from Colossians 1:18: "And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent."
The text from John 13 is the basis of the hymn, although there seems to be quite a bit of poetic license involved. "Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end" from verse 1 seems to be rendered in the hymn's second verse as "Longing with tormented heart / To be with Your dear ones only / For a quiet hour apart." The rest of the cited portion is summarized at the end of the second verse: "One last paschal meal to eat, / One last lesson as their teacher, / Washing Your disciples' feet."
The third verse mentions the Eucharist, with the Words of Institution appearing at the end: "'Do this in remembrance of Me, / Eat this body, drink this blood.'" While all of the Biblical citations are from John, this is the only Gospel without an account of the institution of the Lord's Supper. It appears in Matthew 26, Mark 14, and Luke 22.
"All one body, You the head" in the fourth verse is from Colossians 1:18: "And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent."
