1:29-34 The account of Day Two begins with John the Baptist’s explicit identification of the Coming One as Jesus (vv. 29–30), an identification only hinted at in the other Gospels (e.g., Matt. 11:3/Luke 7:20; Matt. 3:14). John here carries out the role assigned to him in the prologue. He speaks for the entire Christian community in confessing Jesus to be both Lamb of God (v. 29) and Son of God (v. 34). Only now does he answer the question, “Why do you baptize?” His baptism is for the sake of Jesus, “that he might be revealed to Israel” (v. 31). The Israel to whom Jesus is revealed is not the whole nation but a small circle of disciples, a group of “real Israelites” (cf. 1:47) who become the nucleus of a new community and to whom Jesus is later said to have “revealed his glory” (2:11) at Ca…