Isaiah 53:
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
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.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows [literally pains], and acquainted with grief [literally sickness]: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs [literally sicknesses], and carried our sorrows [literally pains]: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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.
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.
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 openeth not his mouth.
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.
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.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief [literally made Him sick]: when thou shalt 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.
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.
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.
Notes on Isaiah 53:
So much can be said about this important prophecy that the notes are split among the various discussions listed below.
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Objection: The Healing Part of Isaiah 53 Does Not Refer to the Atonement
Objection: By Jesus’ Stripes We Were Spiritually, Not Physically, Healed
Objection: 1 Peter 2:25 Proves That 1 Peter 2:24 Just Means That You’re Forgiven
Objection: It’s up to God – God Will Heal Me If He Wants To
Objection: Jesus Could Not Have Borne Both Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia on the Cross
Objection: God Wouldn’t Heal Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh
Objection: Jesus Bore Our Sorrows and Griefs, Not Our Sicknesses and Pains, on the Cross
Objection: Sickness Can Be the Chastening of the Lord
Objection: There Is No Mention of the Atonement in Matthew 8:17 (Fulfilling Isaiah 53:4)
Objection: Jesus’ Bearing of Sicknesses Is Just a Metonymy
Objection: The Context of Isaiah 53:5 Is That We Are Healed of Our Transgressions and Iniquities
Objection: 1 Peter 2:24 Means That You Were Healed from the Disease of Sin
Objection: Jesus Bore Our Sins, Not Our Sicknesses, on the Cross (1 Peter 2:24)
Objection: Nothing in Scripture Even Hints That Jesus Was Sick on the Cross
Objection: The Greek Septuagint Translates Isaiah 53:4 as Saying That He Bore Our SINS
Objection: Isaiah’s Word for HEALED in Isaiah 53:5 Is Ambiguous
Objection: We Are Healed of Going Astray Like Sheep, Not Illnesses, in Isaiah’s Context
Objection: The Suffering Servant in Isaiah 53 Is Actually Israel, Not Jesus
Objection: Isaiah and Peter Meant That We Were Healed from Sin
Objection: Isaiah Foretold That Jesus Would Heal SOME People, Not Everyone
Objection: Pain Will Not Be Done Away With Until Heaven (Revelation 21:4)
Objection: Jesus Was MADE SIN for Us. He Was Not MADE SICKNESS for Us.
Objection: Healing Will Not Be Available UNIVERSALLY Until the Millennium
Objection: We Need to Fulfill What Is Left of Christ’s Sufferings in the Earth (Colossians 1:24)
Objection: The New Testament Emphasizes Spiritual Blessings, Not Material Blessings
Objection: The Curse Was Corporate, Not Personal, So You Could Not Be Personally Redeemed from It
Objection: Jesus Was Not Really PUNISHED for Our Sins; He Just Shed Blood to Atone for Them
Objection: Old Testament Animal Sacrifices Were Never Made Sick
Objection: Old Testament Sacrifices Were Not Made Sick Before They Died, but They Still Covered Sins
Objection: Faith Preachers Are Extravagant-Living Money-Grubbers
Objection: No Gospel of Healing Is Mentioned in the Bible, So It Isn’t Emphasized
Objection: Pain Is Part of the Healing Process, Not Something That Is Necessarily Bad