What the Suffering Servant Is Really Doing
“He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.” (Isaiah 53:2)
“He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.” (Isaiah 53:3)
Isaiah 53 is the most contested chapter in Isaiah. Christians have read it as the most direct Old Testament prediction of Jesus Christ’s suffering.
Jewish interpreters have read it as a portrait of the suffering covenant people Israel.
The two readings have generated more interpretive controversy than almost any other passage.
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