Isaiah 53

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:1

Isaiah THE ARM OF THE LORD Isa_53:1 . In the second Isaiah there are numerous references to ‘the arm of the Lord.’ It is a natural symbol of the active energy of Jehovah, and is analogous to the other symbol of ‘the Face of Jehovah,’ which is also found in this book, in so far as it emphasises the notion of power in manifestation, though ‘the Face’ has a wider range and may be explained as equivalent to that part of the divine Nature which is turned to men. The latter symbol will then be... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:2-3

Isaiah THE SUFFERING SERVANT-I Isa_53:2 - Isa_53:3 . To hold fast the fulfilment of this prophecy of the Suffering Servant in Jesus it is not necessary to deny its reference to Israel. Just as offices, institutions, and persons in it were prophetic, and by their failures to realise to the full their own role , no less than by their partial presentation of it, pointed onwards to Him, in whom their idea would finally take form and substance, so this great picture of God’s Servant, which was... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:4-6

Isaiah THE SUFFERING SERVANT-II Isa_53:4 - Isa_53:6 . The note struck lightly in the close of the preceding paragraph becomes dominant here. One notes the accumulation of expressions for suffering, crowded into these verses-griefs, sorrows, wounded, bruised, smitten, chastisement, stripes. One notes that the cause of all this multiform infliction is given with like emphasis of reiteration-our griefs, our sorrows, and that these afflictions are invested with a still more tragic and... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:7-9

Isaiah THE SUFFERING SERVANT-III. Isa_53:7 - Isa_53:9 In this section of the prophecy we pass from contemplating the sufferings inflicted on the Servant to the attitude of Himself and of His contemporaries towards these, His patience and their blindness. To these is added a remarkable reference to His burial, which strikes one at first sight as interrupting the continuity of the prophecy, but on fuller consideration assumes great significance. I. The unresisting endurance of the Servant.... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:10

Isaiah THE SUFFERING SERVANT-IV Isa_53:10 . We have seen a distinct progress of thought in the preceding verses. There was first the outline of the sorrows and rejection of the Servant; second, the profound explanation of these as being for us; third, the sufferings, death and burial of the Servant. We have followed Him to the grave. What more can there be to be said? Whether the Servant of the Lord be an individual or a collective or an ideal, surely all fitness of metaphor, all reality of... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:11

Isaiah THE SUFFERING SERVANT-V Isa_53:11 . These are all but the closing words of this great prophecy, and are the fitting crown of all that has gone before. We have been listening to the voice of a member of the race to whom the Servant of the Lord belonged, whether we limit that to the Jewish people or include in it all humanity. That voice has been confessing for the speaker and his brethren their common misapprehensions of the Servant, their blindness to the meaning of His sufferings... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:12

Isaiah THE SUFFERING SERVANT-VI Isa_53:12 . The first clause of this verse is somewhat difficult. There are two ways of understanding it. One is that adopted in A. V., according to which the suffering Servant is represented as equal to the greatest conquerors. He is to be as gloriously successful in His victory as they have been in theirs. But there are two very strong objections to this rendering-first, that it takes ‘the many’ in the sense of mighty , thus obscuring the identity of the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-12

the Rejected and Suffering Redeemer Isaiah 53:1-12 The common lot of man may be summed up in three words: suffering, sin, and death. Our Lord, the Divine Servant, presents a notable exception to the rest of the race-not in His sufferings, Isaiah 53:3 ; not in His death, for He died many deaths in one, Isaiah 53:9 , r.v. margin, but in His perfect innocence and goodness. His sufferings were due to sins not His own, Romans 5:8 . We must make His soul our guilt offering, Isaiah 53:10 , r.v.... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 53:1-12

We begin our reading here because the last three verses of chapter 52 so evidently belong to chapter 53. In this section the prophet describes the completion and issue of the suffering of the Servant of God. He is first seen as exalted and lifted up, and this exaltation is put into contrast with the day of humiliation ( Isa 52:13-15 ). A description of the pathway of suffering ( Isa 53:1-9 ) follows. First, the rejected ministry: the Messenger is despised, and His report is not believed.... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-12

The Substitution of the Saviour A Study of Isaiah 53:1-12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The fifty-third chapter of Isaiah is called the Great Calvary Chapter. The chapter, however, goes back of Calvary describing both the childhood and ministry of Christ. Then in the conclusion of its message, Isaiah fifty-three passes beyond Calvary, setting forth the wonderful future when Christ's soul shall be satisfied. 1. The query of the opening verse. Before the Prophet leads to the discussion of the Cross... read more

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:1

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:2-3

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:4-6

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:7-9

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:10

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:11

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 53:12

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-12

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 53:1-12

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-12

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