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Isaiah 53:8

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Isaiah 53:8

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?

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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.

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.

The fulfillment reading pairs Isaiah 53:8's language of the Servant subjected to an unjust judicial process with the hearing before Annas in John 18:13-22. Proponents treat the several proceedings Jesus underwent, before Annas, Caiaphas, the Sanhedrin, Pilate, and Herod, as distinct judicial phases, each answering to the judgment the Servant endures. They see the multiplication of hearings against an innocent man as intensifying the injustice Isaiah describes. On this view the Annas hearing is a discrete moment worth marking within the fulfilled pattern.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

The critical reading treats the arrest and the successive hearings as stages of one judicial process rather than separate fulfillments, so counting 'confined' and 'judged' as distinct prophecies from the same verse splits a single event. It notes that John 18:13-22 does not quote Isaiah 53:8, leaving the link thematic. Critics view the unjust-condemnation language as one sustained description of an unjust proceeding, applicable broadly to the trial scenes without specifying any one hearing. Distributing the stages of a single condemnation across multiple prophecy-claims is seen as expanding the count without adding predictive content.

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 18:13-22 Echo

    John 18:13-22 recounts the hearing before Annas without citing Isaiah 53:8; the connection is a general thematic resonance of unjust judgment, not a marked reference.