![]() 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned-every one-to his own way and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions he was crushed for our iniquities upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Even the deathblow that would condemn us to hell has been healed by the suffering of Christ Jesus on the cross.53:1 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. Jesus has healed our wounds by his own wounds, suffered at the hands of those who could be healed by them. Our wounds are both self-inflicted and given to us by others. Our wounds are plenty from the evil days we’ve endured in a fallen state, in a fallen world. We can worship him, pray to him, and abide in him. Now that we have peace with God, we can go into his presence as his sons and daughters. ![]() #3 “The punishment that brought us peace was on him,”īy his punishment, we have been reconciled to God, because in his sacrifice, “he himself is our peace.” We were once “far off” but now “have been brought near by the blood of Christ” (Eph 2:13-16). He was crushed by God by the rejection, betrayal, torture, injustice, and murder committed against him by the ones he came to save. He was pierced in his hands and feet, and in his side, as they nailed him on the cross and stabbed him with the Roman spear. It was indeed not his transgressions, which means law-breaking, or his iniquities, which is immorality that caused him to be pierced and crushed. #2 “…he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities ” “But,” it was not his own punishment that he bore. The previous verses show how this suffering servant would be considered punished by God when it was seen how he suffered violence. Breaking Down the Key Parts of Isaiah 53:5 Death and blood were the payment for the human tendency to gravitate toward rebellion towards God, with whom the Jews had made a covenant.īut Isaiah gives more than a hint that the whole system was a placeholder for the ultimate sacrifice, the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Not only did they have to sacrifice a perfect animal, but there were also myriad instructions for sprinkling blood on altars and priests. God saw to it that the fact was extremely clear. The Jews were well aware that “the wages of sin is death” (Gen 2:17). ![]() The Jews had a whole system of sacrifices and offerings for the forgiveness of sin and the restoration of the sinner back into the community and into holiness. This is a statement of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. One of the most profound and prescient prophets of the coming Messiah, Isaiah, foretold seven-hundred years prior the life of Christ what would happen and what kind of suffering servant he would be subject to when he did come. “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.” Explanation and Commentary of Isaiah 53:5
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