In the garden of Gethsemane, when Jesus asks God to “let this cup pass,” He anchors the request in this declaration: “Everything is possible for you.” Very similar words were spoken to Mary by the angel Gabriel when she struggled with the concept of virgin birth. He said, “Anything is possible with God.” 

As Aaron, Moses’ brother, placed his hands on the goat’s head he had confessed “over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. . . The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a solitary place; and the man shall release it in the desert” (Leviticus 16: 21-22).

This goat would carry the sins of the people to a lonely and forbidding place.