Who Is the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53? I don’t remember when or where it happened, but I remember the shock I felt when I first heard that many, perhaps most, Old Testament scholars, including ...

Isaiah 52–53 presents one of Scripture’s most striking figures: the Suffering Servant, who is rejected, suffers for the sins of others, dies, and then is raised to life. Yet the passage never ...

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Isaiah 53 has often been read as a text dealing mainly with “atonement theory.” That is, it is a text that explains the mechanics of how the atonement dealt with sin. That is certainly part of what we ...

Christians believe that the words “He was pierced for our transgressions” from Isaiah 53:5 foreshadow God’s plan for the redemption of His children through Jesus. Believers’ thoughts are focused on ...

Who is the Servant of the Lord depicted in Isaiah 53? While much attention has been focused upon this biblical chapter, there are four important passages that Isaiah penned on the ministry of the ...

There are many individual scriptures that I claim to be my favorite. I cannot pick just one. There is, however, one chapter in the Book of Isaiah that qualifies as my favorite chapter in the Old ...