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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

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

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

THE MAN OF SORROWS‘A Man of sorrows.’ Isaiah 53:3 I. His own personal life was a sorrowful one.—He was away from home, from His Father’s presence. He was a Stranger in a strange land. From His childhood He was full of thoughts which He could not utter, because, if uttered, they were not understood. He was a lonely Man. His sympathy with others by no means implied their sympathy with Him. II. But His sorrows, like His labours, were for others.—(1) Jesus Christ sorrowed over bodily suffering;... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:3

‘He was despised and rejected by men, A man of sorrows, and humiliated by grief, And as one from whom men hide their face, He was despised and we esteemed him not.’ He will not only be unattractive humanly speaking, but also despised and rejected. When He reveals Himself men will laugh and deride (compare the use of the root of ‘despised’ in Isaiah 37:22), they will sneer at Him, they will dismiss His words and His claims. He will be written off by ‘those who know’ as a charlatan. ‘Rejected by... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:1-12

Isaiah 52:13– Isaiah 53:12 . The Vindication of the Servant of Yahweh (the fourth of the Songs of the Servant of Yahweh). Isaiah 52:13-Ezra : . Yahweh announces that His Servant Israel shall be raised to a position so glorious that, even as many were appalled at his pitiable plight, so nations shall do him homage and kings be reverently silent in his presence, beholding so wonderful, so unheard-of a transformation. Isaiah 52:13 . shall deal wisely: translate “ prosper” ( mg.) , but probably... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and rejected of men; accounted as the scum of mankind, as one unworthy of the company and conversation of all men. A man of sorrows; whose whole life was filled with, and in a manner made up of, an uninterrupted succession of sorrows and sufferings. Acquainted with grief; who had constant experience of and familiar converse with grievous afflictions; for knowledge is oft taken practically, or for experience, as Genesis 3:5; 2 Corinthians 5:21, and elsewhere. We hid as it were our... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 53:2-12

THE GREAT MESSIANIC PROPHECYIsaiah 53:2-12. For He shall grow up before Him, &c.Among the prophecies of Isaiah, that which is contained in the chapter before us stands eminent and illustrious. Received and interpreted according to the sense attached to it by Christians, it involves in it a striking proof of the truth and divinity of our holy religion. It does this simply as a prophecy, irrespective of its dogmatic or theological character. It is a prediction of what was to come to pass. It... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 53:3-5

THE DESPISED AND REJECTED SAVIOURIsaiah 53:3. He is despised and rejected of men, &c.This is a summary of the history of our Lord, as it is recorded by the four Evangelists. His very first hours on earth may be cited in proof of its correctness. No place could be found for Him even in an inn. His life was a life of poverty. Scorn and insult followed Him everywhere. His life closed amid circumstances of unspeakable ignominy. In these facts we have,I. A reason for not being very strongly... read more

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