Is Isaiah 53:5 speaking of physical or spiritual healing?<\/p>\n\t
“Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him<\/em>” (Isaiah 53:4-6).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Notice that throughout the immediate context, the reason the Messiah would suffer was because of our griefs, our transgressions, and our iniquities. For these his sufferings brought about our well-being and healing. Thus, we are talking a spiritual healing of the damage done by us due to our sins.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: Is Isaiah 53:5 speaking of physical or spiritual healing? Answer: “Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[1120,795,73],"class_list":["post-31490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-healing","tag-isaiah","tag-jesus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81117,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/perception-can-be-entirely-wrong\/","url_meta":{"origin":31490,"position":0},"title":"Perception Can Be Entirely Wrong","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 6, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Wane Benton Isaiah prophesied that there would be a wrong perception of the Messiah and a correct one (See Isaiah 53). 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