Objection: Jesus Did Not TAKE ON or BEAR Sicknesses in His Own Body in Matthew 8:17, So Isaiah Couldn’t Have Meant That Literally

I don’t know how you can take Isaiah’s prophecy non-literally when you read it in context.  The Messiah surely bore OUR sicknesses and carried OUR diseases, yet people mistakenly considered Him to be smitten by God and afflicted.  But He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities.  Isaiah’s language of being wounded and bruised does not allow for a non-literal reading of what He suffered.  You have to conclude that Isaiah referred to bodily harm and not to some figurative thing.

Besides, the objector (as many others) misses the subtle point that Isaiah referred to Christ’s future atonement.  Matthew’s phrase “that it might be fulfilled” was not the same as saying “then it was fulfilled at that moment.”  Much more information about this issue can be found in the answer to the objection Isaiah 53:4 (Matthew 8:17) Was Fulfilled in Jesus’ Earth Ministry and Cannot Be Claimed as a Promise by Christians Today.