What Was The Cup Jesus
Asked His Father To Remove – REALLY?
Luke
22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from
me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
What
if the cup that Jesus asked the Father to remove from him when He was in the
Garden of Gethsemane, was not what has been taught for so long? What if, He was
speaking of the 'cup' that He was drinking at that moment, ("...this
cup...') rather than the cup he was about to drink – the cross?
It has
been assumed that this suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane, was because of
either fear or dread of the cross. That although He was God, He was also a
human, and as such, it would be only natural for Him to dread what He was about
to face. But I would like to propose something else entirely. I suggest that
what He was asking His Father to relieve Him of was not at all the cross, but that
there was something weighing on Him that He wanted help with so that He could,
in fact, make it to the cross.
Jesus’
purpose had always been to make it to the cross. In fact, remember what Jesus
did when He began to make it known to His disciples how He was going to suffer
and be killed, but Peter took Him aside and rebuked Him saying "Be it
far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee?" Jesus said,
"Get thee behind me Satan ....
Matthew 16:21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his
disciples, how that he must go unto
Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes,
and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far
from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me,
Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that
be of God, but those that be of men.
If
Satan had been tempting Jesus’s flesh, in the garden, not to go to the cross,
He could have simply rebuked him then and there. No, I think something else was
going on altogether.
After
all. The purpose and goal of Jesus had always been to go to the cross and redeem
mankind. I doubt that even His humanity would have distracted Him for one
second from His goal.
Jesus
understood that the reason He came to earth in the form of a man, was so that
His body could bear the sins of the world. His body had been created for that
purpose.
Hebrews
10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering
thou wouldest (determine, choose or prefer [Strong’s]) not, but a body hast thou
prepared me:
Jesus addressed
this very issue and made His view known to Andrew and Phillip when He told them
that the person who loved His life would lose it. Even though Jesus’ soul was
troubled, which in the Greek is - tarasso, tar-as'-so - to stir or agitate (roil water):--trouble – yet
He would in no way ask the Father to save Him from the very purpose for which
He came.
John 12:20-28 And
there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
21 The same came
therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him,
saying, Sir, we would see Jesus
22 Philip cometh
and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.
23 And
Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall
into the ground and die, it abideth
alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth
much fruit.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his
life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal
27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
In verse 27 Jesus
made it abundantly clear – “what shall I
say? Father save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.”
This word ‘hour’ here, can have a figurative meaning and can mean a day or
season. I believe in essence Jesus told Philip and Andrew, shall I ask the Father to save me from the very thing I came to do at
this season?
The
answer is a resounding No! This is seen from the next words He spoke – “Father
glorify they name.” The Greek for the word ‘name’ here is – onoma, on'-om-ah a "name" (literally or figuratively) (authority, character):-- called, (+
sur-)name(-d).
God’s name,
authority, and character would be glorified when Jesus did the will of the Father
and did what He was sent to earth to do. He was not about to ask the Father to
keep Him from doing that which would glorify and honor Him! So why would we
think that He turned around and did so in the Garden of Gethsemane?
John 13:1 lets us
know that Jesus knew that the time for Him to depart out of this world, or that
is, His time to die had arrived and that He loved those He was going to die for
until the very end. He was not about to try and get out of dying on the cross
to redeem them!
John 13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto
the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
He
knew that if He did not die and return to the Father victorious over sin and
death, no man could be saved and have the Holy Spirit living in them.
John
16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the
truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the
Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you
He came for a purpose, took on human form, which was far
beneath the glory He had had before coming to earth and bore the restrictions
of human flesh, for a specific purpose, and I don’t think He ever considered not
going through with what He came to accomplish.
1 John 3:8 … For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Now,
of course, this makes perfect sense. But we cannot just ignore what Jesus said
in the garden about ‘letting this cup pass.’ Okay, fair enough. So, let’s look
closer at what we’re told actually took place. Consider what is said in Matthew
and see if you do not find a possible key to unlock something that has been
overlooked.
Matthew 26:37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of
Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
38 Then saith he unto them, My
soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch
with me.
39 And he went a little
further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be
possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou
wilt.
42 He went away again the
second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away
from me, except I drink it, thy will be done
Alright,
so the first thing we are told here is how that He took Peter and the two sons
of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Pause here and consider
what this means. The word 'sorrowful' here, in the Hebrew, means - to distress;
reflexively or passively, to be sad:--cause grief, grieve, be in
heaviness, (be) sorrow(-ful), be (make) sorry.
The
word 'heavy' means - (to be sated to loathing); to be in distress (of
mind) ....
Then in
verse 38, Jesus said that His soul was exceeding sorrowful even
unto death!
The
meaning for these words 'exceeding sorrowful' in the Hebrew is - grieved all
around, i.e. intensely sad:--exceeding (very) sorry(-owful).
His
'soul' was grieved and intensely sad. Do you notice that in all these things
that we are told Jesus was feeling and experiencing, fear or dread are not once
mentioned? At that exact moment our Lord was distressed. He was grieving and
sorrowful. He was sated or filled to loathing.
According
to https://www.websters1913.com/words/loath
the meaning of the word 'loathing' is - Loath"ing, n. Extreme
disgust ; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.
Abhorrence is - Ab*hor"rence (?), n. Extreme
hatred or detestation ; the feeling of utter dislike.
What
was it that He such extreme hatred of? We are told in the book of Hebrews that
while Jesus endured the cross, He did despise the shame. But unless He was
thinking ahead, while in the Garden of Gethsemane, He had not yet reached the
cross.
Still,
there in the garden, there was not only a loathing inside of Him but He was
exceedingly sorrowful as well.
See how it is recorded
in Luke.
Luke 22:41-4441 And he was withdrawn from them about a
stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
42 Saying, Father,
if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will,
but thine, be done.
43
And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
44
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as
it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
This agony
that he was suffering is the word 'agonia,' in the Hebrew. It means - a
struggle (prop. the state), that is, (fig.) anguish;- agony.
Though
we are not told His thoughts, we see that there was a struggle going on. There
was so much going on inside of Him that He called upon His Father for help.
What was the result? An angel appeared and strengthened him. After receiving
strength from the angel, he was able to go through the agony that was so severe
that He sweat as it were great drops of blood that fell to the ground. Yes,
this was not just dampness on his skin, but sweat so great that it literally
fell from him to the earth!!
Now,
let me tell you what I think was probably happening in the garden that day that
was so hard for the Savior to bear, and why. I will leave you to your own
conclusions but think this is worth consideration.
I believe that the ‘cup’ that He asked the Father to
remove from Him was a cup He was having to drink in that moment. And I believe what
was happening to Him was that the sin of the world being transferred to his
sinless body!
Why do
I think this? This is based on the belief and understanding that the sins of
the world would have to be in our Savior’s body before He received the
punishment for those sins.
The Bible tells us that
not only did the Father put all of our sins on Christ, but it says that the
Savior actually ‘became’ sin, even though He had never sinned Himself. I do not
believe that Jesus was punished for our sins before this transfer took place.
But rather that He was carrying our sins in His body, and had become sin, at
the time He was punished for those sins.
I do not believe that one thorn was placed into his scalp,
one fist hit His face, or one lash from the Roman whip bore into His flesh
before our sins had been transferred to Him and He had become sin for our sakes.
He was being beaten and punished for our sins, so I conclude our sin had been
out on Him at this point.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us,
who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned
every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all.
1Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on
the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose
stripes ye were healed.
In the past, I had thought about when Jesus took
our sins, but as perhaps is the case with many, I had never thought it out. I
didn’t know if He had borne our sins for a few seconds on the cross or for many
hours. But I had not considered that if all the suffering He suffered from the
time He was taken to Pilot until He said, ‘It is finished,’ was punishment for
my sin, then my sin surely would have been on Him during that time.
If this is the case, then when did the transfer of
the sins of the world onto our Lord take place?
Let’s do some reasoning, folks. If He was sinless,
holy, and undefiled, the perfect lamb, before our sins were transferred to His
body – and if – He was led straight from the Garden of Gethsemane to the Sanhedrin
and Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were
assembled, and there He was spit on and ‘buffeted,’ – in other words – if He
began to be punished for our sins by the scribes and elders – then – it stands
to reason that our sins were on Him at that time.
With
this Belief in mind, I conclude that He took on our sins sometime before
leaving the garden where the torture began and I find nothing in scripture portraying
this event until I see His agony in the garden.
Matthew 26:67 Then did
they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their
hands,
Thus,
I suggest that Jesus was pure and undefiled when He entered the Garden of
Gethsemane but that as the sins of the world were transferred onto His sinless
body, it was a serious shock to His entire being.
Before
this transfer took place, He knew sin existed, but He had never sinned. He was
pure and blameless. Since, He had never sinned, He had never had to endure the
feelings of uncleanness, guilt, or condemnation. He had never had to feel godless.
However, God has no fellowship with darkness. Sin separates us from God. So,
Jesus would have also had to bear being separated from the Father at the very
time He was suffering the most excruciating pain.
Again,
I suggest that He entered the Garden of Gethsemane in all of His holiness, pure,
and undefiled. However, as soon as He would leave the garden, He would be in
the hands of the soldiers who were going to torture Him. And it would be the
body of sin that would be tortured and killed. Therefore, I believe that it was
the onslaught of all the evil sins of the world being poured, as it were, into
Jesus’ body that caused such grief and heaviness that He called out to the
Father for help, so that He did not give out before He could make it to the
cross.
Take a
look and consider what the transfer of our sins onto Christ caused Him to bear.
Isaiah
53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried
our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised
for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was
oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as
a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
openeth not his mouth.
Let’s look more deeply at what these
things really were. Look at the Hebrew meanings of some of these words.
Griefs
= choliy, khol-ee' -
malady, anxiety, calamity:--disease, grief, (is) sick(-ness).
Wow! Just looking
at the word ‘griefs’ look what we find! Along with our sin being on Him, He also
bore the maladies, anxieties, calamities, diseases, griefs and sickness’ that
result from our sins! Whew! If this means He actually had our diseases in Him,
surely He would have been tremendously weakened physically! But even if you
believed this to be speaking figuratively in some way, surely this was terrible
suffering!
Add to that, bearing our anxieties! Consider
who ‘anxiety’ is defined by – www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anxiety
1 apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness
usually over an impending or anticipated ill : a state of being
(2 ) medical : an abnormal
and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physical
signs (such as tension, sweating, and increased pulse rate), by doubt
concerning the reality and nature of the threat, and by self-doubt about one's
capacity to cope with it
b: mentally distressing concern or interest
c: a strong desire sometimes
mixed with doubt, fear, or uneasiness….
What a burden to find yourself suddenly bearing! Jesus was God. He
had no reason to be uneasy, nervous, mentally distressed, or overwhelmed by
apprehension! And yet He bore our anxieties. And notice in the definition given,
it says that an overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear is often marked by
such things as sweating and increased pulse rate. Now, although Jesus Himself
had no such anxieties, if He bore ours, it would be no wonder that he would
loathe the very feelings of such things. And surely, He would want to be free from
the feelings of such infirmities!
Yet by bearing it, He could have sympathy for what we go through.
Hebrews 4:15 For we have not an high priest which
cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points
tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
‘Touched with the feeling’ here means - to feel "sympathy" with … have
compassion, …. (Strong’s)
Infirmities – astheneia,as-then'-i-ah - feebleness
(of mind or body); by implication, malady; morally, frailty:--disease,
infirmity, sickness, weakness.
And He carried our sorrows!
Sorrows - mak-obe' sometimes makcowb {mak-obe' - anguish or (figuratively)
affliction:--grief, pain, sorrow
So, the sorrow he bore for us was strong enough to
include the meaning of anguish, which https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/anguish says
is ‘extreme unhappiness caused by physical or mental suffering.
How about the sorrow of every broken heart?
Please, never again say that God does not
understand!
He bore not only the sins of the world but their suffering too!
(v6)
The iniquities of us all were laid on Him.
The Hebrew
word for iniquities is - avon, aw-vone' - … perversity, i.e. (moral) evil:--fault,
iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
Now think about a
time when you did something wrong that made you feel guilty, ashamed and unclean.
Maybe even the first time that ever happened. Maybe telling a lie as a child.
It felt pretty bad, especially the first time, didn’t it?
Well, Jesus had
never once sinned. But in that pure, innocent state, he received every sin ever
committed and He surely felt the guilt and shame of it all. Surely, He hated,
loathed and despised all of the filth that He was now having to bear! And
surely, He hated the enemy, Lucifer, known as Satan, who continuously seduced
God’s creation to sin and bring them into the bondage of so many mental and
emotional pains and distresses! No wonder our Lord was agitated and may have experienced
an inner war and turmoil!
And if this transfer of our sins and
sufferings happened in the Garden of Gethsemane, it would explain the agony he
was going through! This must have been one of the most amazing, most horrible
things Jesus ever suffered. He had never experienced sin! He was love
and in him was the light of the world, but he chose to take on all that was evil
and dark in mankind.
The Bible tells
us he literally was made sin!
There
is not a human being on the face of the earth who can comprehend what it might
feel like to have every vile, perverted, filthy sin, ever committed, stuffed in
his body all at once. Not one of us can fathom what it would be like to feel
the guilt and shame of horrendous evil, when you had been nothing but good,
pure, and sinless throughout all of time! Can you imagine our sinless Lord
having the sin of rape - or child abuse - or torture, put on him, only to name
a few? How could our pure Savior bear even one of these things, let alone, ALL
the sins of the world?
The
stress, distress, and anguish were so great that “his sweat was as
it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” (Luke 22:44)
https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/hematidrosis-hematohidrosis#1
tells about a condition that sounds like what our Lord suffered. It is a
condition called Hematidrosis. (Quote) Hematidrosis, or hematohidrosis, is a very rare medical
condition that causes you to ooze or sweat blood from your skin when you're
not cut or injured. People
who have hematidrosis may sweat blood from their skin. It usually happens on or
around the face, but the skin might be lining the inside of your body, too,
like in your nose, mouth, or stomach. The skin around the bloody area may
swell temporarily.
Crying tears of blood is related. It's called hemolacria.
Bleeding from the ears is called blood otorrhea.
Hematidrosis can look like blood, bloody sweat, or sweat with droplets of
blood in it.
The bleeding usually stops on its own,
and it's not serious, although it can make you dehydrated. And, of course, it
can be disturbing.
Doctors don't know exactly what triggers hematidrosis, in part because
it's so rare. They think it could be related to your body's "fight or
flight" response.
Let
me say here that this makes me think of what could well have been going on with
the onset of the sins of the world being transferred to Christ’s body – this fight
or flight – response. Surely everything in Him would have wanted to fight
against this onslaught of evil for it went against everything He was. He would
want to be separated from it as quickly as possible. He was completely opposed to
the very sin that He now bore. If Jesus was not asking the Father to remove those
sins, since He knew He had to make it to the cross with them, He may have been
asking the Father to either relieve Him of the extremely strong emotional response
to them, that being the feelings of uncleanness, guilt, shame and condemnation,
or perhaps the cup that He was asking God to remove was the effect all this was
having on His body, the tremendous stress that was causing Him to sweat, as it
were, great drops of blood and perhaps was even causing dehydration to set in.
If the stress became so much that His body couldn’t bear it and He was to die,
then He would not make it to the cross, and He was determined to get there.
So,
he asked God to remove that cup. When He did, an angel from Heaven appeared and
strengthened Him. I believe this is key. If the angel strengthening Him was the
answer to His prayer, then it seems this is what He was asking for, in essence,
‘don’t let me bear this without strength.’ But
let us go on a little more in considering the condition of Hematidrosis, which
sounds like what Jesus was suffering.
(Quote) Tiny blood vessels in the
skin break open. The blood inside them may get squeezed out through sweat glands,
or there might be unusual little pockets within the structure of your skin.
These could collect the blood and let it leak into follicles (where the hair grows)
or on to the skin's surface.
Sometimes it seems to be caused by
extreme distress or fear, such as facing death, torture, or severe ongoing
abuse. It's probably where the term "sweating blood," meaning a great
effort, comes from.
Indeed, an angel came and strengthened
Him. Without that help, He may not have been able to bear the physical attacks
that He would have to bear on top of all the internal suffering, in the hours
ahead. Without at least some physical relief he may have passed out if not
died. And the Father would not let that happen.
Dehydrated, stressed to the point of
sweating blood, physically weakened perhaps to the point of His body almost
giving out, distracted, and oppressed in mind and spirit by all the filth that
was laid on Him, He might not have been able to take the whipping, the crown of
thorns, being hit by grown men, having some of His beard ripped out of His
face, carrying a cross and then having nails driven into His hands and feet,
without dying too soon without the help the angle brought.
No. I do not believe that for one
second, our Lord and Savior was asking to be kept from the cross, but rather to
be relieved from a cup He was drinking in the garden so that He could make it
to the completion of His mission, perhaps with a little emotional strength and
some extra physical strength.
And He did make it!! Consider what
He did!
People
think of Jesus as pure and holy. AND HE WAS! They think of his precious
blood being pure and holy. AND IT WAS! - HOWEVER - When He took our sin in his body, when He became
sin, the blood that flowed from his body on the cross, was blood
contaminated with OUR sin! The body of sin was dying, and our
sins were being washed away in the flow of his blood on that day!
This
is why the born-again child of God can speak of being washed in the blood of
the lamb. Our sin was washed away, in the blood that flowed from Christ on
Calvary!
Romans 7:24-25 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from
the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord ….
Colossians 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
even the forgiveness of sins:
Leviticus 17:11-12 For the life
of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to
make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement
for the soul.
12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you
shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat
blood.
Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood,
we shall be saved from wrath through him.
He bore our sins in his
own body. That body was beaten and tortured. He suffered for the sins that we
did, that were put on him! That body of death (physical death and separation
from God mentally and spiritually as well) was pierced with a sword. Blood
flowed out and the body of sin died so that we might live! Look at how the
psalmist described it -
Psalms
22:11- 24 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint:
my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth
to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Does this not sound like dehydration? –
“My tongue cleaveth to my jaws”
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.18They
part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
18 But
be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
19
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
20
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the
unicorns
22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the
congregation will I praise thee.
23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob,
glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him,
he heard.
But consider too, the
pain that was probably greater than all other, that our precious Savior
suffered. One thing Jesus had always been able to count on was the presence of
his heavenly Father, who he had been one with throughout all of eternity. The
Father had been with him every moment of his earth life. He had guided him,
showed him what to do, strengthened him and encouraged him. Even though he had
become man, yet up until our sin was put on Him and He became sin, His
condition was as described in Colossians.
Colossians
2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Colossians 1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all
fulness dwell;
He and His Father were
one and the Holy Spirit dwelled in him. He was human, but a sinless human, so
there was nothing to prevent perfect fellowship between himself and the Father.
But when our sin entered His body, the Father separated Himself from Him.
Isaiah 59:2 But your
iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have his his
face from you, that he will not hear you
This was
probably more painful than anything Jesus suffered! When our sins entered His
sinless body His fellowship with the Father left as well! I would thin all of
this would have been enough to cause a human body to collapse! And what did
Jesus do when finally on the cross? Matthew 27:46 and about the ninth hour
Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying Eli, Eli, Lama sabachthani? that is to
say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Of
course, Jesus knew the reason God had forsaken Him. I think that perhaps when
he used the word “why” it was more of a rhetorical question, a one-word
call for God’s attention, as if to say – ‘Do you remember why? Remember why! You
know why! The ‘why’ is because I am doing your will! See here! I have done it!
I have born their sins just as we agreed on before we created them. You have
forsaken me – why? – you know why!
(This
is also quoted in Psalms 22)
God
had turned away from His son, and it was excruciating. But why was He going
through it? He and the Father both knew why! Hallelujah!
So
whether you come to the same conclusion that I have come to about what I
believe was most going on in the Garden of Gethsemane and what the cup was that
Jesus was really referring to, I hope you have given more thought as to what
our Savior suffered for us.
Below is a little more study on what He
did for us.
Isaiah 53:5-12 But
he was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised
for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah
53:7 He was
oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as
a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken
from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was
cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was
he stricken.
9 And he made his
grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no
violence, neither was any deceit
in his mouth.
11 He shall see of
the travail of his soul, and shall
be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will
I divide him a portion with
the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath
poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and
he bare the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors.
Wounded = chalal, khaw-lal' - properly, to bore, i.e.
(by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to
begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); … begin (X men began), defile, … pollute, (cast as) profane
(self), … slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Bruised = daw-kaw' - to crumble; transitively, to
bruise (literally or figuratively):--beat
to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite
Iniquities – avon, aw-vone' - perversity, i.e. (moral) evil:--fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
Chastisement – muwcar, moo-sawr' - properly,
chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also
restraint:--bond, chastening ((-eth)), chastisement, check, correction, discipline, doctrine, instruction, rebuke.
(English)
Chastisement https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chastisement
- Definition of chastise
2: to inflict punishment on (as by whipping)
Oppressed
= nagas, naw-gas' - a primitive root; to
drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize:--distress, driver, exact(-or), oppress(-or ….
Afflicted
= `anah, aw-naw' - through the idea of looking down or browbeating); to depress
literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications,
as follows):--abase self, afflict(-ion, self), … chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, … weaken, X in any wise.
