Isaiah 53:3

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-3

The prophet, in the close of the former chapter, had foreseen and foretold the kind reception which the gospel of Christ should find among the Gentiles, that nations and their kings should bid it welcome, that those who had not seen him should believe in him; and though they had not any prophecies among them of gospel grace, which might raise their expectations, and dispose them to entertain it, yet upon the first notice of it they should give it its due weight and consideration. Now here he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

He is despised, and rejected of men ,.... Or, "ceaseth from men" F6 חדל אישים "desiit viris", Montanus, Heb.; "desitus virorum", Piscator; "deficiens virorum", Cocceius; "destitutus viris", Vitringa. ; was not admitted into the company and conversation of men, especially of figure; or ceased from the class of men, in the opinion of others; he was not reckoned among men, was accounted a worm, and no man; or, if a man, yet not in his senses, a madman, nay, one that had a devil: or... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:3

Acquainted with grief - For וידוע vidua , familiar with grief, eight MSS. and one edition have וירע veyada , and knowing grief; the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read it ויודע veyodea . We hid as it were our faces from him "As one that hideth his face from us" - For וכמסתר uchemaster , four MSS. (two ancient) have וכמסתיר uchemastir , one MS. ומסתיר umastir . For פנים panim , two MSS. have פניו panaiu ; so likewise the Septuagint and Vulgate. Mourners... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-12

The Messianic interpretation of the chapter was universally acknowledged by the Jews until the time of Aben Ezra. It was also assumed as indisputable by the Christian Fathers. Almost all Christian expositors down to the commencement of the nineteenth century took the same view. It was only under the pressure of the Christian controversy that the later Jews abandoned the traditional interpretation, and applied the prophecy In the present century a certain number of Christian commentators... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2-11

The sufferings of Jesus. It is the great object of Isaiah, in this chapter, to declare to his countrymen I. THE MESSIAH A SUFFERING MESSIAH . Hitherto Isaiah had looked upon the promised Redeemer on the side of his glories and his triumphs. His names were to be "Immanuel," or "God with us" ( Isaiah 7:14 ), "Wonderful," "Counsellor," "The Mighty God," "The Everlasting Father," "The Prince of Peace" ( Isaiah 9:6 ). "Of the increase of his government and peace there was to be no... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

He is despised ; rather, was despised (comp. Isaiah 49:7 and Psalms 22:6 ). Men's contempt was shown, partly in the little attention which they paid to his teaching, partly in their treatment of him on the night and day before the Crucifixion. Rejected of men ; rather, perhaps, forsaken of men— "one from whom men held themselves aloof" (Cheyne); comp. Job 19:14 . Our Lord had at no time more than a "little flock" attached to him. Of these, after a time, "many went back, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

The rejected Saviour. "He is desvised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." He! Who? The incarnate Lord, who has grown up in childhood as a " tender plant;" who is the one "living root," while all others are the dry soil of a decrepit and degenerate humanity. I. THIS REVEALS TO US WHAT THE HEBREW CHURCH WAS . Christ was the " to u ch stone" of that Church. Its conduct to him made manifest to what a condition they had come. Think of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

The Man of sorrows. We feel that there is but One of our race to whom this title properly belongs; One who may wear it as a crown upon his brow, inasmuch as his sorrows do him higher honour than the most conspicuous success ever conferred on human spirit. It does belong to him, not in virtue of the fact that his outward career involved more cruel hardships than those ever borne before; but in virtue of the fact that his spirit was such as to make his endurance more grievous than that ever... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

Man's disposition to reject his best blessings. Philip the evangelist, from this, and the connected passage, preached unto the eunuch Jesus. This is sufficient reason for our associating it with Messiah. The chapter concerns the human life, the sorrowful experience, the shameful death, and the eternal triumph of the Son of God. The story of the Christ can be gathered up and expressed in a sentence," He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." The... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 53:3

He is despised - This requires no explanation; and it needs no comment to show that it was fulfilled. The Redeemer was eminently the object of contempt and scorn alike by the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Romans. In his life on earth it was so; in his death it was still so; and since then, his name and person have been extensively the object of contempt. Nothing is a more striking fulfillment of this than the conduct of the Jews at the present day. The very name of Jesus of Nazareth excites... read more

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