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Isaiah 53:5

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Isaiah 53:5

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.

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For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

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.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

This reading singles out the peace (shalom) clause of Isaiah 53:5, the well-being the Servant's suffering secures, and connects it to Colossians 1:20, which speaks of making peace through the blood of the cross. On the fulfillment reading the Servant's punishment restores a broken relationship, and Paul identifies that reconciling peace as the fruit of Christ's death. The penalty borne and the peace achieved are treated as two prophetic dimensions, justification and reconciliation, realized together at the cross.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

The critical reading notes that the claim isolates the shalom element of the very verse already read for 'penalty borne', so cause (vicarious suffering) and effect (peace) are counted as separate predictions from a single poetic line. Colossians 1:20 does not quote Isaiah 53:5; it echoes the broad theme of reconciliation rather than citing the text. On this reading the peace the Servant produces is the community's restored well-being within Isaiah's own frame. Splitting one statement into penalty and peace multiplies prophecy-claims without multiplying distinct predictions.

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.

  • Colossians 1:20 Echo

    Colossians 1:20 shares the theme of peace/reconciliation through the Servant's suffering but has no verbal quotation of Isa 53:5 and no citation formula.