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BIBLE VERSE COMMENTARY BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED SERIES

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,Īnd by His stripes we are healed.

BIBLE VERSE COMMENTARY BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED SERIES

I’d be interested if any of you can find any blog posts or online articles where this particular phrase is addressed apart from the wider consideration of the verse as a whole.Īt this point, let’s conclude by saying that the finished work of Christ on the cross is sufficient for all manner of needs we face all types of burdens we carry.(NOTE: This is the fifth blog post in a series on scriptures commonly misinterpreted.)īut He was wounded for our transgressions, (“Oh, what peace we often forfeit oh, what needless pain we bear…”) A broader study of the chapter reveals a Messiah suffering for all of the burdens we bear, such as the ones listed above in the pastor’s survey. Many of the other commentaries and study Bibles I own do not directly address this phrase. The Wycliffe Bible Commentary makes clear however that the peace that is brought is a general well-being, not simply addressing the consequences of sin.īut in the Evangelical Bible Commentary, something else is suggested, that the suffering servant of Isaiah 53 is bringing a peace that represents the restoration between God and man.

Lack of peace as sin? Worry and anxiety as sin? That’s what both of these commentators seem to say. His sufferings went to the root of all human vice. The ESV Study Bible notes on this verse concur: Peace and healing view sin in terms of the estrangement from God and the marring of sinners themselves that it causes. The New International Bible Commentary says: of French – Louis Segond)Ĭlearly, the intent of this verse is that our peace is part of the finished work of Christ on the cross.

The punishment which gives us the peace has fallen on him (tr.

the chastisement peace and well-being for us was upon Him (Amplified).

The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him (NASB).

He took the punishment, and that made us whole (Message).

If Isaiah 53 applies, then it must apply to the point of bringing peace to the very doubts, anxieties, fears, angers, jealousies, anger, pride, insecurities, addictions, pain, disappointments, attitudes… and everything else that people mentioned on those little 3-by-5 cards.įirst, let’s do some translation hopping: pastor had his congregation complete an index card indicating the trials they were facing and the burdens they were carrying. I mention all this because of a post I did this morning at Thinking Out Loud, where a U.S. Isaiah, in this Messianic prophecy is saying that Christ’s suffering has brought us forgiveness for our transgressions and iniquities as well as (if you’re not dispensationalist) healing of mind and body.īut there it is, in the second-to-last, a reference to peace. The punishment that brought us peace was on him, If you grew up Pentecostal or Charismatic, there is no escaping teaching on that part of the verse no escaping the connect-the-dots between the scourging Christ suffered and the healing that is available to us today, in the 21st century.īut what about the third of the four clauses in that verse? Here’s the whole verse in the new NIV:īut he was pierced for our transgressions, Those words, from the KJV of Isaiah 53:5 are probably among the scripture verses most known by heart.