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Isaiah 53:10

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Isaiah 53:10

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

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But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

On the messianic-fulfillment reading, Isaiah 53:10 attributes the Servant's suffering to God's own will and purpose: God does not merely permit the affliction but actively wills it toward a redemptive end. That same divine initiative is heard in Jesus' acceptance of the cup given him by the Father at his arrest (John 18:11), where Jesus consciously submits to the Father's will. Defenders note that the verb picturing God 'crushing' the Servant is more intense than the language of 53:6, which they take as a deepening of the theme rather than a bare repetition. Read this way, the verse is the OT foreground of the NT claim that the cross was God's deliberate plan (cf. Acts 2:23).

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

On the critical reading, Isaiah 53:10's statement of divine initiative restates the theology already voiced in 53:6, where God is said to have laid the guilt of all upon the Servant. Both lines assert the same point — that God deliberately stands behind the Servant's affliction — so treating them as two separate predictions counts one theological claim twice. The tie to John 18:11 is thematic: Jesus' willingness to drink the cup echoes submission to God's will in a general way, but the Gospel neither cites nor verbally reproduces Isaiah 53:10. On this view the connection documents a genuine theological resonance rather than a distinct, verifiable prediction.

How the New Testament uses this passage

Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.

  • John 18:11 Not cited by the New Testament

    John 18:11 shares the theme of accepting God's will (the 'cup' from the Father) but contains no quotation, verbal allusion, or citation formula tied to Isaiah 53:10; the connection is purely thematic.