Good Friday Meditations From Isaiah Chapter 53 Verse By Verse

MEDITATIONS FROM ISAIAH CHAPTER 53 VERSE BY VERSE

ISAIAH 53 : 1

1 Who has believed our report?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

JOHN 1: 12

11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God”

JOHN 6 : 65 - 68

65 And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”

66 From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more.

67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”

68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

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ISAIAH 53 : 2

2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,

And as a root out of dry ground.

He has no form or comeliness;

And when we see Him,

There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

Luke 2 : 40 , 52

40 And the Child grew and became strong [k]in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.

52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

ISAIAH 52 : 14

14 Just as many were astonished at you,

So His visage was marred more than any man,

And His form more than the sons of men;

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ISAIAH 53 : 3

3 He is despised and rejected by men,

A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;

He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Hebrews 4 : 15 - 16

15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Matthew 27:29-31

and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said.

They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again.

After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

Matthew 27:20-23

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.

"Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" asked the governor. "Barabbas," they answered.

"What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?" Pilate asked. They all answered, "Crucify him!"

"Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"

Luke 22:44

And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

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ISAIAH 53 : 4

4 Surely He has borne our griefs

And carried our sorrows;

Yet we esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten by God, and afflicted.

MATTHEW 8:16-17

" When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.

This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: "He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases."

JOHN 16:20

Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

2 CORINTHIANS 1:3-4

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,

who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

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ISAIAH 53 : 5

5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was ruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed.

I PETER 1:18-19

" For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers,

but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. "

1 JOHN 2:2

2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.