Watchman Press Reviewed Scripture Study
The Servant Who Bore Our Sicknesses
Isaiah 53:4 ↔ Matthew 8:17
Scripture Text
Read the Relationship in Young’s Literal Translation
Isaiah 53:4
4 Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains — he hath carried them, And we — we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
Matthew 8:17
17 that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, 'Himself took our infirmities, and the sicknesses he did bear.'
Editorial Analysis
Watchman Press Review
The following classifications and notes are reviewed Watchman Press editorial analysis. They are separate from the biblical text and from the raw cross-reference dataset.
The Servant Who Bore Our Sicknesses
Matthew directly applies the servant's bearing of sickness and infirmity to Jesus' healing ministry. The Gospel therefore identifies Jesus with the servant described by Isaiah.
Matthew's use of the servant passage shows that Jesus' healing work is not incidental to His identity. It belongs to the prophetic portrait of the one who bears the burdens of God's people.
Evidence / source note
Project sources reviewed: Young's Literal Translation, the 1881 Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and the JPS 1917 Tanakh.
The Servant Who Bore Our Sicknesses
Matthew explicitly says the healing ministry occurred in fulfillment of what was spoken through Isaiah.
The Gospel itself controls the classification here. The connection is not inferred later from similarity; Matthew states it.
Evidence / source note
Project sources reviewed: Young's Literal Translation, the 1881 Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and the JPS 1917 Tanakh.
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