Known in the Old Testament as the “Suffering Servant” passage, Isaiah 53 is a key portion of Scripture that theologians say foretells of Jesus’ gruesome death on a Roman cross.

The Servant will ultimately be rejected by the religious and political leaders of His day. Isaiah graphically depicts the suffering the Servant will endure in Isaiah 53.

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 ...

Isaiah 53: 1-12 NLT, “Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm? My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground.

Might I suggest that the careful use of historical Christian doctrine can help? Take Isaiah 53’s shadowy prophecy of the Suffering Servant. In its own context, mystery lies thick around the Servant.

The first reading (Isaiah 53:10-11) is a selection from the text of Isaiah known as the “Suffering Servant Songs”; and in the Gospel (Mark 10:35-45 or 10:42-45), Jesus speaks to James and John ...

The suffering human (Isaiah 52:13-53:12) Exiled Israel, the crucified Christ, and the thread that holds two interpretations together.

In words of epic majesty, the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, considered by many the greatest passage in the Old Testament, presents a picture of the suffering Servant of the Lord.

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 ...

Isaiah 53: 1-12 NLT, “Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm? My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground.