Isaiah 53.
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We Christians likewise recognize these prophecies to be about Jesus. But people only realized it after the fact. Before Jesus went through his suffering,
Y’might recall
The Pharisees believed Messiah would come once, to conquer the world. They presumed he’d do it same as other conquerors: Take it by force, and make humanity submit.
But winning the world through his suffering, rather than seizing it by force, is what Isaiah saw him do. And reported thisaway.
Isaiah 53 KWL - 1 Does anyone believe what we’ve reported?
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ORD ’s arm is upon this person who’s been revealed. - 2 He grew up in God’s presence like a sapling, like something rooted in dry ground.
- We could see nothing honorable in his form. He wasn’t anything to look at.
- 3 People dismissed and refused to hear him. A man in pain, familiar with illness,
- dismissed like one who hides his face from people—we took no account of him.
- 4 But in fact he’d taken up our illness. He carried our pain.
- We figured he’d been smited: God had struck him down to humble him,
- 5 but he was wounded for our rebellion, crushed for our evil deeds.
- Our peace came from his punishment. His beating brought us healing.
- 6 Like sheep, all of us have wandered off; we all went our own way.
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ORD put all our evil deeds on him. - 7 He was abused and humiliated, and didn’t open his mouth.
- Like a sheep to slaughter, or an ewe to her shearers, is silent: He didn’t open his mouth.
- 8 Arrested, judged, he was carried off. His peers—who spoke up for him
- when he was cut off from the land of the living? beaten for the evil deeds of my people?
- 9 They put him in the grave with evildoers, with the rich in death,
- though he’d treated no one violently. No deceit was in his mouth.
- 10 The L
ORD was pleased to crush him, to make him unwell, to make his soul a guilt offering, - and see his seed survive. God will prolong its days. The L
ORD is pleased to make it prosper in his hand. - 11 God will be satisfied by the trouble of this servant’s soul:
- He will be right in knowing the righteous one, my servant, will bear the weight of both the great and the evildoers.
- 12 Therefore I will give him something from the great ones. He’ll be given spoil with the mighty ones.
- For under them, his soul was poured out to death. He was counted with the rebels.
- He carried the sin of the great. He brings light to the rebels.