ISAIAH 53
Jesus the Messiah would come as the sacrificial Lamb of God.
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
The conception, nativity, and youth of Jesus Christ.
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Jesus the Jew to be rejected by his own people.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
He would come to bear our sins in his body on the tree.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes, we are healed.
God the Father would lay on him the iniquity of all believers.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Christ would come as the Lamb of God, the new pascal lamb.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.
The prophesied arrest, arraignment, crucifixion and burial of Jesus.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
God would sacrifice His Son as the scapegoat to bear the sins of many.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
God would make Him sin for us that we may have His righteousness.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
The prophesied water and blood from Christ’s pierced side.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors, and he bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
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FOOTNOTE.
Isaiah 53:11. Herein is the mystery of joint imputation through grace. I.e. The believer’s sins are imputed to Christ’s crucified body risen and ascended to the right hand of the Father in heaven. Correspondingly the Lord’s righteousness is simultaneously imputed to the believer justifying the new believer in a robe of righteousness. This is the divine act of grace administered by the Holy Spirit to the penitent sinner seeking the Lord with all of his heart, soul, might, and strength.
For he hath made him be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
( 2 Corinthians 5:21.)
CREDITS:
Scripture taken from the King James Version (1611- Public Domain) of the Bible, the last Puritan Bible published.
Headings, subheadings, and footnotes by John David.
