Reading about the suffering servant and thought I would find corresponding verses from the NT reflecting the fulfillment of Isaiah 53:
1) Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? [John 8:45,45b] But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. . . If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
2) For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form of majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. [Luke 2:40] And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.
3) He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. [Luke 17:25] But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
4-6) But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his tripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned---every one---to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all. [1Peter 2:24] He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live unto righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
7) He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. [Mark 15:5] (before Pilate) But Jesus yet answered nothing, so that Pilate marvelled.
8) By oppression and judgement, he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? [Matt. 26:50b] Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.
9) And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. [Matt. 27:57,58] When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
10,11) Yet it was the will of Yahweh to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. [Romans 5:19] For as by one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many shall be made righteous.
12) Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors. [1 Tim. 2:5,6] For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all . . . .
Closing: Isaiah 52:13 Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. [Phil. 2:9] Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
So, this was just a cursory study - I thought it would be fun for everyone to reference a Isaiah 53 to their own corresponding verse from the NT - what say you?
