Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him with pain. When you make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days; through him the will of the LORD shall prosper. Out of his anguish he shall see light; he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out himself to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah 53:4-6, 10-12, NRSV)
I remember this verse in the King James version, “and by His stripes we are healed”
The NRSV says bruises… It doesn’t carry the same weight for me. He was punished and beaten, practically to death before His crucifixion. He was striped, literally His back would have been stripped of the flesh and had stripes running over it.
And by this we are healed and given a new life! This is the verse where the band Stryper got their name.
And it is a verse for us to remember what He did for us, so that we could be with Him!
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