Objection: Isaiah Foretold That Jesus Would Heal SOME People, Not Everyone

According to this objection, Isaiah foretold the healings found in the four gospels during Jesus’ ministry, but he did not foretell that Jesus would provide healing for everyone.  This usually follows the argument that Isaiah 53:4 was fulfilled in Jesus’ ministry, not when He paid for our sins; you can read the answer to that argument elsewhere in this book.

This objection is very easily dismissed.

Isaiah 53:4 tells us that surely (God is emphatic about this because He knew that there would be plenty of unbelief-ridden articles written against divine healing!) Jesus took OUR sicknesses and carried OUR pains.  (If you still think that this means griefs and sorrows, as translated in the King James Version, click here.)  Since He carried OUR sicknesses, Isaiah had to be talking about YOUR sicknesses too, not just the ones found in the four gospels.  If you want to consider “our” to mean “belonging to those of us at Capernaum” as opposed to “all of us everywhere,” you will also have to believe that the Lord only laid the iniquity of “us” at Capernaum on Jesus, since the same passage in Isaiah refers to “us” both in regard to healing and in regard to iniquity being laid on Jesus.

It does violence to the entire context to say that what Jesus did in Isaiah 53:4 was for a few when in Isaiah 53:5-6, what He did was clearly for EVERYONE.  “But he was wounded for our transgressions, 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.”

Thank God, His bearing of our sicknesses and our pains was just as much for everyone as His bearing of our sins on the cross!