Isaiah 53:5 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 53:5

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

BSB

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ASV

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

KJV

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

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Commentary

4 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

Discourses Against the Arians 3.31 (373)

It did not say, "He remedied our infirmities," lest, as being external to the body and only healing it, as he has always done, he should leave people subject still to death. Rather, he carries our infirmities, and he himself bears our sins, that it might be shown that he has become human for us, and that the body that in him bore them was his own body.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Wounds and bruises were the consequences of sin, what we deserved and what we had brought upon ourselves, ch. i. That these wounds and bruises, though they are painful, may not be mortal, Christ was wounded for our transgressions, was tormented or pained (the word is used for the pains of a woman in travail) for our revolts and rebellions.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

But he was wounded - Margin, ‘Tormented.’ Jerome and the Septuagint also render this, ‘He was wounded.’ Junius and Tremellius, ‘He was affected with grief.’ The Chaldee has given a singular paraphrase of it, showing how confused was the view of the whole passage in the mind of that interpreter. ‘And he shall build the house of the sanctuary which was defiled on account of our sins, and which was delivered on account of our iniquities. And in his doctrine, peace shall be multiplied to us.

Modern Voices1 voice

Smith Wigglesworth

1859–1947

Ever Increasing Faith, Chapter 5: "I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee" (1924)

Faith in the shed blood of Jesus. Faith in the fact that He took our weakness upon Himself, has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains, and that He is our life today.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהוּא֙	ve.Hu'	and he	H1931 →
מְחֹלָ֣ל	me.cho.Lal	[was] pierced	H2490 →
מִפְּשָׁעֵ֔נוּ	mi.pe.sha.'E.nu	from transgressions our	H6588 →
מְדֻכָּ֖א	me.du.Ka'	[was] crushed	H1792 →
מֵעֲוֹנֹתֵ֑ינוּ	me.'a.vo.no.Tei.nu	from iniquities our	H5771 →
מוּסַ֤ר	mu.Sar	[the] chastening of	H4148 →
שְׁלוֹמֵ֙נוּ֙	she.lo.Me.nu	peace our	H7965 →
עָלָ֔יו	'a.Lav	[was] on him	H5921 →
וּבַחֲבֻרָת֖וֹ	u.va.cha.vu.ra.To	and by wound[s] his	H2250 →
נִרְפָּא־	nir.pa'-	it was healed	H7495 →
לָֽנוּ׃	La.nu	to us

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 5:21
God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
leads to
- 1 Peter 3:18
  For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Peter 2:22–24
  “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”
- Romans 5:19
  For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
- Galatians 3:13
  Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
- 1 Corinthians 1:30
  It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
Through
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
leads to
- Hebrews 9:28
  so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 9:26
  Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by…
Through
Matthew 20:28
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
leads to
- Titus 2:14
  He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Isaiah

Where the connections lead

The record, by era

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Isaiah