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Isaiah 53 is the fifty-third chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah and is one of the Nevi'im .
The books of the New Testament frequently cite Jewish scripture to support the claim of the Early Christians that Jesus was the promised Jewish Messiah.Scholars have observed that few of these citations are actual predictions in context; the majority of these quotations and references are taken from the prophetic Book of Isaiah, but they range over the entire corpus of Jewish writings.
Meister Francke: Man of sorrows, with angels, c. 1430 German woodcut with hand-colouring, 1465–70. Man of Sorrows, a biblical term, is paramount among the prefigurations of the Messiah identified by the Bible in the passages of Isaiah 53 (Servant songs) in the Hebrew Bible.
[30] Of specific note are the songs of the Suffering Servant, which Christians say are a direct prophetic revelation of the nature, purpose, and detail of the death of Jesus Christ. The Book of Isaiah is quoted many times by New Testament writers. [31] The Gospel of John says that Isaiah "saw Jesus' glory and spoke about him." [32]
Christians assert that Jesus was predicted by Isaiah, as attested in Luke 4:16–22, [86] where Jesus is portrayed as saying that the prophecies in Isaiah were about him. [v] The New Testament explicitly quotes from Isaiah 53 [87] in Matthew 8:16–18 [88] to indicate that Jesus is the fulfillment of these prophecies.
Isaiah 50:4-9 Isaiah 50:4–7 is seen by New Testament commentators to be a Messianic prophecy of Jesus Christ. 50:6 is quoted in Handel's "Messiah" of Jesus. There is an allusion in Luke 9:51 to Isaiah 50:7 ("Therefore I have set my face like a flint"), as Jesus "set His face steadfastly" to go to Jerusalem.
Judgment on Israel – Ezekiel makes a series of denunciations against his fellow Judeans , warning them of the certain destruction of Jerusalem, in opposition to the words of the false prophets . The symbolic acts, by which the extremities to which Jerusalem would be reduced are described in Chapters 4 and 5 , show his intimate acquaintance ...
The Book of Isaiah (Hebrew: ספר ישעיהו [ˈsɛ.fɛr jə.ʃaʕ.ˈjaː.hu]) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. [1]