![]() The Lord Jesus in His human spirit first entered fully under the burden of every condition that He then went on to relieve. Matthew makes it clear that this was the fulfilment of Isaiah 53:4 ‘Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.' This is remarkable because it shows that these actions involved more than the bare exercise of power. Then, ‘When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick' (Matt. In chapter 8 He cleanses the leper, heals the centurion's servant and rebukes the fever under which Peter's mother-in-law was suffering. Most Christians could quote at least a part of it and know that it speaks of the sorrow and suffering of the Lord Jesus, Israel's Messiah.Īt His baptism the Lord Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power and Matthew chapters 8 and 9 show Him exercising that power. A well-known author wrote of it as etched on every Christian's heart and perhaps that is still true today. ![]() Of the nine chapters in the sixth section, this is the central one. ![]() Isaiah 53 shows this and even deeper suffering. This ill-treatment was extreme-‘His face was so marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men' (52:14). His ear was opened and He was an obedient and faithful servant who suffered at men's hands as a consequence (50:4-9). The Lord Jesus is the Servant who laboured in vain, and whom the nation abhorred (49:4-5). While chapters 40 to 48 of Isaiah make no explicit reference to the rejection of Messiah by Israel this is very clearly the primary subject in chapters 49 to 57. He did not force Himself upon unwilling Israel but, as the verses in Matthew 11 show us, accepted this from and gave thanks to the Father who hid these things from the wise and prudent, but revealed them unto babes (Matt. These verses are quoted in Matthew 12:18-21 where they present the meekness and gentleness of Christ. ![]() He is the one who in the time to come will make a full end of idolatry, which Cyrus did not, and in whose Name the Gentiles will trust. Cyrus, the King of the Persians, is brought before us as Jehovah's shepherd and anointed, and His instrument for the destruction of Babylon, the great source of idolatry 4 However, in chapter 42:1-4 the Lord Jesus is brought before us as Jehovah's perfect Servant. In chapters 40 to 48 Israel is several times referred to as Jehovah's servant, but was a failing one, having fallen into idolatry and become blind to the glory of Jehovah and deaf to His word 3. to the wicked,' the wickedness referred to has a different form in the two cases-idolatry in the fifth section and Israel's faithless rejection of Messiah in the sixth section. Although these two sections both end with the same words: ‘There is no peace. It divides into seven sections 2, the fifth section being chapters 40 to 48 and the sixth section chapters 49 to 57. Matthew 8:14-17 John 12:37-41 Luke 22:35-38 1 Peter 2:19-25 Acts 8:26-35 Romans 10:11-21.īefore looking at the six passages of Scripture referred to, which contain the seven quotations from Isaiah 53 1 in the New Testament, some general remarks are appropriate regarding the Book of Isaiah. Extended notes based on an address given at Catford on 4 January 2014
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