“Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.”
Isaiah 53:4 (NIV)
How do you interpret the various verses in Isaiah 53?
As we read it we can see clearly that it is describing the ministry of our Lord Jesus.
For those of us who have surrendered to Christ and follow Him as Lord, there is a thought process we go through when we read a prophecy like this about our Lord’s ministry- we evaluate our lives and reality against what was prophesied.
Now we need to guard against evaluating the truth of the bible against our personal experiences, for we easily fall into the trap of sitting in judgement over God’s Word, when we should always put God’s Word in judgement over us.
Yet with that being said it is still very helpful to our faith to examine the Words of Isaiah 53 and examine our experiences in Christ against our own personal understanding or interpretation of those Words
Over the next 4 blog posts we will be looking at the New Testament usage of quotes from Isaiah 53, but in this post I would like us to consider verse 4 and meditate on Matthew’s usage of it in Matthew 8:17.
Matthew states that our Lord’s ministry of driving out demons and healing the sick were a fulfillment of this prophecy.
Does that square with how you understand Isaiah 53:4?
Don’t get confused by the differences in Words, for that is a fairly simple translation thing, Matthew is using the Septuagint- so we are seeing an English translation of a Greek translation of the Hebrew, whereas in Isaiah we are seeing an English translation of the Hebrew.
Praise God, for our Lord took up our infirmities and bore our diseases.
What does that mean to you today?
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