Look closely at the words “griefs” and “sorrows” in Isaiah’s
prophecy below. Scholarship demands that both these words should have been
rendered by our English words “sickness” and “pains.”
Isa 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne
our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of
God, and afflicted. (KJV)
In this Scripture, Isaiah declared to us that Jesus died for our
sickness and pain as well as our sins. Many, many translations of the Bible say
that Jesus died for our “sicknesses” and “pains” as well as for our sins.
The Bible: An
American Translation (J. M. Powis Smith and Edgar J. Goodspeed)
used the words “pains and sorrows” to translate this Isaiah healing Scripture.
The Holy
Scriptures According To The Masoretic Text: A New Translation (The Jewish
Publication Society)
used the words “diseases and pains” to translate it.
The Emphasized
Bible: A New Translation (J. B. Rotherham)
used the words “sicknesses and pains.”
The
New American Bible
used the words “infirmities and sufferings.”
The
New English Bible
used the words “sufferings and torments.”
In addition to
the above, Young, the great Hebrew scholar, used the words “sicknesses and
pains.”
Another Hebrew
scholar, Leeser, used the words “diseases and pains” to translate it.
The above is
only the tip of the iceberg. The deeper you look into Scripture, the more
evidence you find that Jesus’ death covered our sicknesses as well as our sins.
The Bible Versions cited above do not tiptoe around the edges. They give the
heart and soul of what Isaiah actually said. Jesus died for our sicknesses as
well as for our sins.
Next we see
Matthew’s view of Isaiah 53.
Matt 8:16-17
16 When
the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils:
and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
17 That
it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself
took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. (KJV)
Matthew
translated this Isaiah healing Scripture with the words “infirmities and
“sicknesses.”
MacClaren, the
Godly commentator, agrees with Matthew’s interpretation of Isaiah. He also used
the words “sicknesses” and “diseases.”
Delitzsch, the
great Hebrew scholar, continues the argument. He used the words “sicknesses” and
“pains” to translate this Isaiah passage.
What Jesus bore
for us, we do not have to bear for ourselves. Jesus bore our sins so we would
not have to bear them. He bore our sicknesses and pains so we do not have to
bear them either. What a wonderful savior.
We Gentile
Christians can be healed by faith because we have been grafted into this Isaiah
healing passage right along with the physical descendents of Abraham. In his
death, Jesus bore our sicknesses too.
Dr. Jay Snell:
Author of several books concerning the healing, prosperity, family well being
and salvation contained in the Abrahamic covenant for Christians. These books
presented many times on TBN.
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