Was the Suffering Servant In Isaiah 53 prophetic of Jesus ?

Question

The Jews expected a messiah to over throw the Romans but Jesus chose to fight with pain and suffering.

Writen over 700 years before the birth of Jesus ,was this a prophecy of How Jesus would act when he was on earth ?

Answer 1

Nope- don't forget that when Isaiah was originally written it didn't have chapters. Chapter 52,53,54 are a single prophecy - which starts talking about Israel as a nation- then moves into a metaphorical mode where it refers to ISrael as an individual towards the end of chapter 52, contnues with the metaphor in chapter 53 and returns to the open talk of Israel as a nation in chapter 54. Bottom line is that Isaiah 53 is talking about Israel as a nation being the servant of God and suffering because of it, and does not refer to an individual or to the future messiah.

Answer 2

No.

It was not even a prophecy about the Messiah, but about Israel (the people).

Something to consider:
Christian belief maintains that the messiah was to die to atone for the sins of mankind. Yet, if Isaiah 53 is talking about the messiah, then, it doesn't say anything about dying, only about suffering. So this doesn't square with Christian theology.

Answer 3

Yes it was talking about the darling. Jesus was prophecied about 700-1000 years before he was born.

Answer 4

Yes, that was a prophecy about Jesus.

Acts 8:29 And the Spirit said to Philip, "Go over and join this chariot." 30 So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

31 And he said, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

32 Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: "Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth. 33 In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth."

34 And the eunuch said to Philip, "About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?"

35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.

Isaiah 53:7 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. 8 By oppression and judgment 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? 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. 10 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

The difference in wording has to do with the New Testament quotes coming from the Greek Septuagint instead of the original Hebrew text.

Answer 5

No. The story was used to create the myth of Jesus, just as most other stories in the NT.
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Answer 6

Except instead of overthowing the Romans and making Jerusalem free, the Romans converted and their empire lost Jerusalem to the Muslims. All the while, they persecuted the Jews even more as Christians then they did as pagans.

Sounds like Jesus failed. Are you sure he was the meshia?

Answer 7

Isaiah 53 is about Jesus -- no one else.

Answer 8

Yes.
Isaiah 53:5 refers specifically to Jesus:
"But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed."

Answer 9

yes absolutely....it waz a prophesy abt jesus... he crushed the head of the devil on the crossthis was also a prophesy
(Genesis 3:14-16) and redeemed us with the cost of his precious blood so dat we would hav eternal life.....