Walking With Christ

Leviticus 4 speaks of sin offerings, what they are, how they are to be done, and by whom.  It was just a part of Jewish culture.  Everyone sinned, so everyone was required to bring their sin offerings to the temple for sacrifice.

What about Jesus?

He never sinned.  It never occurred to me before, but He never had to make a sin offering.

Wouldn’t someone have noticed if Jesus wasn’t making sin offerings?  Not really.  It was such an embedded part of the culture and such a personal thing that it was just assumed that He was doing it like everyone else.

After the temple was built, the sacrifices could only be done at the temple in Jerusalem.  People who could not travel to the temple on a regular basis were simply expected to make a sacrifice the next time they were at the temple.  The alternative was to send money.  The fact that Jesus did none of this would have been easily missed in those days.

There is an argument saying that He could have offered sacrifices just to hide in plain sight, but a sin offering implied that there was sin.  Saying that there was sin when there hadn’t been would have been a lie, which would have then been a sin.  So, no, Jesus never made a sin sacrifice.