Isaiah 52 and 53 famously describe a mysterious figure that scholars have dubbed the “Suffering Servant.” The parallels between the Servant and Jesus are striking, and the New Testament ...

Take Isaiah 53’s shadowy prophecy of the Suffering Servant. In its own context, mystery lies thick around the Servant. A disturbing portrait of travail and torment mystifies and perplexes ...

The patient suffering of the servant in today’s Isaiah passage is similarly ambivalent, and it plays on our own ambivalent ideas about violence, passivity, and retribution: “I gave my back to those ...

In Chapters 40 to 55 of Isaiah, there are four passages known as the Servant Songs. One of them, quoted as today’s first reading, is about the “suffering servant.” One wonders what it was ...

There are four “servant of the Lord” oracles in Isaiah. These passages are also known as the “suffering servant songs,” which reveal what a well-trained disciple might have to face.

For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. It is no surprise that the editors of the lectionary assign Isaiah’s “suffering servant” passage for Good Friday. The tradition of ...

This article will be updated if a response is received. Known in the Old Testament as the “Suffering Servant” passage, Isaiah 53 is a key portion of Scripture that theologians say foretells of ...

(Isaiah 50:4-7, NASU) In this crucial Messianic passage, the Messiah is speaking as the Suffering Servant. He declares His allegiance and obedience to the Father. That obedience included ...

Last week, we began to look at the historical writings of the prophet Isaiah in the fifty-third chapter. Even so, my feeble description there failed to convey the proper weight ...

We can begin by trying to understand Jesus as the Suffering Servant of God. In today’s passage, the third of the servant songs, Isaiah depicts a servant-disciple, a prophet and more. As a ...