Isaiah 53:8

"He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth."

Key Reflection

This passage portrays Jesus as one who suffers in silence, much like a lamb led to slaughter or a sheep before shearing. His unwavering quietness highlights his passive acceptance of injustice and suffering, foreshadowing his role as the sacrificial lamb for sin.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

He was taken from prison -Margin, ‘Away by distress and judgment.’ The general idea in this verse is, that the sufferings which he endured for his people were terminated by his being, after some form of trial, cut off out of the land of the living. Lowth renders this, ‘By an oppressive judgment he was taken off.’ Noyes, ‘By oppression and punishment he was taken away.’ The Septuagint renders it, ‘In his humiliation (ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσειentētapeinōsei), his judgment (ἡ κρίσις αὐτοὺhēkrisisautou), (his legal trial. Thomson), was taken away;’ and this translation was followed by Philip when he explained the passage to the eunuch of EthiopiaActs 8:33.

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