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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 counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

On the critical reading, the closing image of the divine purpose succeeding is bound to the preceding clauses as one continuous sequence — divine purpose, sacrifice, restoration, success — so treating it as a distinct prediction lifts a summary phrase out of the statement it concludes. Addressing the fulfillment claim directly, critics hold that the tie to John 17:1-5 rests on the general theme of a commissioned mission brought to completion, a motif shared by many accounts of a divine agent, and that the link involves no quotation of or verbal dependence on Isaiah. They add that this is the fourth distinct prophecy drawn from this one verse, which on their reading multiplies claims from one theological statement. On this view the correspondence is thematic rather than a targeted forecast of a particular figure or event.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

On the messianic-fulfillment reading, Isaiah 53:10 closes by declaring that the will of YHWH prospers through the Servant — his commissioned mission succeeds through, not despite, his suffering — and this is applied to Jesus' prayer that the Father glorify him, having finished the work given him (John 17:1-5). Both texts describe a divinely commissioned figure whose mission is brought to successful completion. Defenders emphasize the richness of the verse, which they read as compressing sovereign will, sacrifice, restoration, and mission-success into a single line that maps onto the Passion-resurrection sequence.

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 17:1-5 Not cited by the New Testament

    John 17:1-5 shares the theme of a completed, divinely-given mission but contains no citation or verbal allusion to Isaiah 53:10.