Isaiah 53:3

The Servant was despised and rejected, a man of sorrows familiar with grief, from whom people turned away. It matters because the world's Savior was met with contempt rather than honor.

Cross-references · 34

• John 1:10–11He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.
• Matt 26:67Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
• Isa 53:10Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
• Heb 12:2–3looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Isa 49:7Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
• Mark 14:34He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch.”
• Ps 22:6–8But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
• Isa 53:4Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
• Heb 5:7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
• Luke 9:22saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”
• Heb 4:15For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
• Isa 50:6I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
• John 11:35Jesus wept.
• Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
• Ps 69:19–20You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
• Zech 11:12–13I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.
• Luke 18:31–33He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
• Luke 8:53They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
• Matt 27:39–44Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
• Heb 2:15–18and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
• Mark 15:19They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
• Ps 69:10–12When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
• Mark 9:12He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?
• Matt 27:63saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’
• Acts 3:13–15The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
• John 8:48Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
• Mic 5:1Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
• Ps 69:29But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
• Deut 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
• Zech 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
• Luke 23:18–25But they all cried out together, saying, “Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!” —
• Matt 26:37–38He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
• Matt 27:9–10Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him upon whom a price had been set, whom some of the children of Israel priced,
• Luke 19:41When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,

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