Isa. 53 The incredulity of the Jews: the death of Christ, and the blessed effects thereof, Isa. 53:1–11; his exaltation and glory, Isa. 53:12.

Who hath believed our report? the prophet having in the three last verses of the former chapter made a general report concerning the great and wonderful humiliation and exaltation of Christ, of which he intended more largely to discourse in this chapter, before he descended to particulars he…

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; and the reason or occasion why the Jews will so generally reject their Messiah, is because he shall not come into the world with secular pomp and power, like an earthly monarch, as they carnally and groundlessly…

He is despised and rejected of men; accounted as the scum of mankind, as one unworthy of the company and conversation of all men. A man of sorrows; whose whole life was filled with, and in a manner made up of, an uninterrupted succession of sorrows and sufferings.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: and whereas it may seem all unreasonable and incredible thing, that so excellent and glorious, and so innocent and just, a person should meet with this usage, it must be known that his griefs and miseries were not laid upon him for his own…

But; but this was a most false and unrighteous sentence. He was wounded; which word comprehends all his pains and punishments, and his death among and above the rest.

All we, all mankind, the Jews no less than the Gentiles, like sheep, which are simple and foolish creatures, and exceeding apt to straggle and lose themselves, have gone astray from God, and from the way of his precepts, in which he put our first parents, and in which he commanded us to walk.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted; he was sorely punished for our sins. But there is another translation, which seems to be more emphatical, and more agreeable to the Hebrew text; It (to wit, our iniquity last mentioned, or the punishment of all our sins) was exacted or required, (as this word…

He was taken from prison and from judgment: these words are understood either, 1. Of Christ’s humiliation or suffering; and then the words are to be thus rendered, He was taken away (to wit, out of this life, as this word is used, Ps. 31:13, Prov.

He made his grave with the wicked; and although he did not die for his own, but only for his people’s sins, yet he was willing to die like a malefactor, or like a sinner, as all other men are, and to be put into the grave, as they used to be; which was a further degree of his humiliation.

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; but although he was perfectly innocent, it pleased God for other just and wise reasons to punish him. He hath put him to grief; God was the principal Cause of all his sorrows and sufferings, although men’s sins were the deserving cause.

He shall see, he shall receive or enjoy, as this word commonly signifies, of the travail of his soul, the comfortable and blessed fruit of all his hard labours and grievous sufferings, and shall be satisfied; he shall esteem his own and his Father’s glory, and the salvation of his people, an…

Therefore will I, God the Father, the Spectator and Judge of the action or combat, divide him; give him his share; or, impart or give to him; for this word is oft used without respect to any distribution or division, as Deut. 4:19, Deut. 29:26, and elsewhere.