v. 1 “Who hath believed. . . ?”

John 12:37-38 “But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not. . . .”

“. . . and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?”

Matthew 11:25-27 “. . . he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.”

(Example: Matthew 16:15-17 “. . . flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father. . . .”)

Luke 17:27-30 “Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.”

v. 2 “For he shall grow up . . . as a root . . .”

11:1,10 “And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse. . . .”

“ out of a dry ground . . .” (the world)

John 19:28 “Jesus . . . that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.”

29-30 So we gave him vinegar!

(See: Psalm 69:20-21 “. . . and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.”)

John 4:14 While he came to cure our thirst in this “dry ground.”

(And incidentally:)

19:31-33 “. . . because it was the preparation . . . they brake not his legs. . . .”

See: Exodus 12:43-47 “. . . neither shall ye break a bone thereof.”

(What does the passover have to do with it?)

Answer: John 19:14-15 “And it was the preparation of the passover. . . .”

Isaiah 44:3 “For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground. . . .”

“he hath no form . . . “

Philippians 2:5-8 “Who, being in the form of God . . . took upon him the form of a servant. . . .”

“that we should desire him.”

Examples of this use of the word:

Genesis 3:16 “. . . thy desire shall be to thy husband. . . .”

4:7 “. . . unto thee shall be his desire. . . .”

Psalm 27:4 David thinks the Lord is beautiful and hasn’t seen him with his eyes.

90:17 This beauty isn’t skin deep.

96:9 It’s something else.

Proverbs 31:30 “. . . beauty is vain. . . .”

2nd Corinthians 5:7 We never received him for his looks, anyway. “(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)”

v. 4 “He is despised . . .”

John 15:18, 23-25 “They hated me without a cause.”

“and rejected of men . . .”

John 19:15 Read it again.

Matthew 21:42 (33-44) “The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner. . . .”

Acts 4:10-12 ditto

1st Peter 2:4,7 “disallowed indeed of men. . . .”

“a man of sorrows. . .” (“our lady of sorrows”?)

(See: 42:8 “I am the Lord . . . and my glory will I not give to another. . . .”)

Romans 1:21-25 “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature. . . .”

Why should the Lord be a “man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief”? (See v. 4.)

(John 7:10 “that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”)

“and we esteemed him not.”

Deuteronomy 32:15 As Jeshurun, who “lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.”

Luke 16:15 “. . . that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”

(Example: Jeremiah 7:17-19 Honoring the “queen of heaven.” The whole family is in on it.)

QUESTION: What’s wrong here?

ANSWER: Isaiah 29:13-14 “Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.”

“smitten of God . . .” That’s right!

Matthew 27:45-46 “Why hast thou forsaken me?”

26:39 “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.”

v. 5 “wounded . . . bruised . . . chastisement . . . stripes. . . ”

Matthew 26:67-68 “Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him. . . .”

27:11-12 “Thou sayest.” (A king has subjects, and where are they?)

20-30 “And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.”

v. 7 “he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. . .”

John 1:26-29 “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”

“and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.”

See: Matthew 27:12-14 “And he answered him to never a word. . . .”

v. 9 “And he made his grave with . . . the rich in his death. . . .”

Matthew 27:57-60 “. . . a rich man . . . begged the body of Jesus . . . and laid it in his own new tomb. . . .”

v. 10 “Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief. . . .” (Who is “he”? Pilate?)

(See: “smitten of God” in verse 4)

John 19:5-11 “Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above. . . .”

“he shall see his seed. . . .” (How can that be? See v. 8 “and who shall declare his generation? . . .”)

Psalm 22:30 “A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.”