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The unity of father and son in the sacrifice is shown by Midrashic statement on the biblical verse, "And so they went both of them ''together (Yachdav'')" - One to slaughter and one to be slaughtered'.

The unity of father and son in the sacrifice is shown by Midrashic statement on the biblical verse, "And so they went both of them ''together (Yachdav'')" - One to slaughter and one to be slaughtered'.

== Why Christians can see Christ in the Aqeda==

== Christians can see Christ in the Aqeda==

Christians often see Christ proliptically portrayed in the Binding of Isaac. This comes about both because of the parallels in the story of Abraham's sacrifice-to-be with the actual giving by the heavenly Father of His Son, Jesus as a sacrifice, and by the knowledge of what the sacrifices for sin meant in the Hebrew Bible. But Christ is also portayed when one peers at the Akeda through the eyes of the Midrash. The message of the New Testament and of Paul's teaching of the sacrifice of Christ was first of all nothing alien to comprehensibilty to the Jewish mindset and expectation.  

Christians often see Christ proliptically portrayed in the Binding of Isaac. This comes about both because of the parallels in the story of Abraham's sacrifice-to-be with the actual giving by the heavenly Father of His Son, Jesus as a sacrifice, and by the knowledge of what the sacrifices for sin meant in the Hebrew Bible. But Christ is also portayed when one peers at the Akeda through the eyes of the Midrash. The message of the New Testament and of Paul's teaching of the sacrifice of Christ was first of all nothing alien to comprehensibilty to the Jewish mindset and expectation.