{"id":12075,"date":"2025-06-02T07:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=12075"},"modified":"2025-06-02T07:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:40:36","slug":"the-astonishing-servant-of-jehovah-isaiah-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/the-astonishing-servant-of-jehovah-isaiah-53\/","title":{"rendered":"The Astonishing Servant of Jehovah (Isaiah 53)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been stuck on Isaiah 53 for the last couple days, and I found this gem from John MacArthur. This is the first overview of Isaiah 53 to start a series that lasted a couple months, and the historical detail brings it alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Astonishing Servant of Jehovah (Isaiah 53)\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8pjH6jbAlNo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-divider ub_divider ub-divider-orientation-horizontal\" id=\"ub_divider_e92ccec1-04cc-4177-96fb-fcc48f2de4c6\"><div class=\"ub_divider_wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; margin-bottom: 2px; width: 100%; height: 2px; \" data-divider-alignment=\"center\"><div class=\"ub_divider_line\" style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 2px; \"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Isaiah 52:13\u201315<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&#91;13] Behold, my servant shall act wisely;\n    he shall be high and lifted up,\n    and shall be exalted.\n&#91;14] As many were astonished at you\u2014\n    his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,\n    and his form beyond that of the children of mankind\u2014\n&#91;15] so shall he sprinkle many nations.\n    Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,\nfor that which has not been told them they see,\n    and that which they have not heard they understand. (ESV)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Isaiah 53<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&#91;1] Who has believed what he has heard from us?\n    And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?\n&#91;2] For he grew up before him like a young plant,\n    and like a root out of dry ground;\nhe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,\n    and no beauty that we should desire him.\n&#91;3] He was despised and rejected by men,\n    a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;\nand as one from whom men hide their faces\n    he was despised, and we esteemed him not.\n\n\n&#91;4] Surely he has borne our griefs\n    and carried our sorrows;\nyet we esteemed him stricken,\n    smitten by God, and afflicted.\n&#91;5] But he was pierced for our transgressions;\n    he was crushed for our iniquities;\nupon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,\n    and with his wounds we are healed.\n&#91;6] All we like sheep have gone astray;\n    we have turned\u2014every one\u2014to his own way;\nand the LORD has laid on him\n    the iniquity of us all.\n\n\n&#91;7] He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,\n    yet he opened not his mouth;\nlike a lamb that is led to the slaughter,\n    and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,\n    so he opened not his mouth.\n&#91;8] By oppression and judgment he was taken away;\n    and as for his generation, who considered\nthat he was cut off out of the land of the living,\n    stricken for the transgression of my people?\n&#91;9] And they made his grave with the wicked\n    and with a rich man in his death,\nalthough he had done no violence,\n    and there was no deceit in his mouth.\n\n\n&#91;10] Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him;\n    he has put him to grief;\nwhen his soul makes an offering for guilt,\n    he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;\nthe will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.\n&#91;11] Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;\nby his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,\n    make many to be accounted righteous,\n    and he shall bear their iniquities.\n&#91;12] Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,\n    and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,\nbecause he poured out his soul to death\n    and was numbered with the transgressors;\nyet he bore the sin of many,\n    and makes intercession for the transgressors. 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