Matthew 8:17 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 8:17

This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took on our infirmities and carried our diseases.”

BSB

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ASV

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our diseases.

KJV

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet,.... In Isa 53:4 "He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows", here rendered, himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses: very agreeable to the Hebrew text, הוא, "he himself", not another; נשא, "took up", upon himself voluntarily, freely, as a man lifts up a burden, and takes it on his shoulders; חלינו, "our infirmities", diseases, sicknesses, whether of body or soul, ומכאבינו סבלם, "and bare", or carried, as a man does a burden upon his back, "our sicknesses", or diseases, which occasion pain and sorrow.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Such instances are frequent in the sacred writings, and are elegancies rather than imperfections. He fulfilled these words in the highest sense, by bearing our sins in his own body on the tree: in a lower sense, by sympathizing with us in our sorrows, and healing us of the diseases which were the fruit of sin.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Christ bore away sin by the merit of his death, and bore away sickness by the miracles of his life; nay, though those miracles are ceased, we may say, that he bore our sicknesses then, when he bore our sins in his own body upon the tree; for sin is both the cause and the sting of sickness.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

That it might be fulfilled ... - This passage is found in Isa 53:4. Our English translation of that important passage is, “Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.” The Greek in Matthew is an exact translation of the Hebrew, and the same translation should have been made in both places. In Isa 53:1-12, Isaiah fully states the doctrine of the atonement, or that the Messiah was to suffer for sin. In the verse quoted here, however, he states the very truth which Matthew declares.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

(1890)

Modern Voices1 voice

Derek Prince

1915–2003

Jesus Carried Away Your Diseases (devotional, Claiming Your Inheritance series)

Notice that Matthew has no doubt who is the person referred to in Isaiah 53, for he applies it to Jesus. Notice also that Matthew, who was a Jew and understood Hebrew, had no doubt that the application of those verses in Isaiah 53 is physical.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅπως	hopōs	so that	G3704 →
πληρωθῇ	plērōthēa	it may be fulfilled	G4137 →
τὸ	to	that	G3588 →
ῥηθὲν	rhēthen	having been spoken	G2046 →
διὰ	dia	through	G1223 →
Ἠσαΐου	Ēsaiou	Isaiah	G2268 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
προφήτου	prophētou	prophet	G4396 →
λέγοντος·	legontos	saying;	G3004 →
αὐτὸς	autos	Himself	G846 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
ἀσθενείας	astheneias	infirmities	G769 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	of us	G3165 →
ἔλαβεν	elaben	He took	G2983 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὰς	tas	<the>	G3588 →
νόσους	nosous	[our] diseases	G3554 →
ἐβάστασεν.¶	ebastasen	bore.	G941 →

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
1 Peter 2:24
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
leads to
- Isaiah 53:4–6
  Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
- Romans 6:11
  So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
- Revelation 22:2
  down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month.…
- 1 John 2:29
  If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
Through
Isaiah 53:4
Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:24
  He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- 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 John 2:2
  He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
Through
Matthew 2:15
where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”
leads to
- Hosea 11:1
  When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

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