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Isaiah 53:1

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Quotation2

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

John 12:37-43

'Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?' is a formula-cited quotation ('that the word of Isaiah... might be fulfilled') of Isa 53:1 LXX verbatim. Maximal Volume; John reads Israel's unbelief at the signs through the Servant Song's lament over a rejected revelation.

High confidence
Rom 10:14-21

Formula-cited: 'Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report?' — verbatim quotation of Isaiah 53:1, the opening of the Servant Song. Paul uses Israel's unbelief at the Servant's message to explain why 'they did not all heed the gospel.' The 'report' (akoe) is punningly tied to 'faith comes by hearing (akoe)' in 10:17. High volume and theological weight.

High confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 53
Isaiah 53:3 13Isaiah 53:3-5 3Isaiah 53:3-12 2Isaiah 53:4 8Isaiah 53:4-12 2Isaiah 53:5-6 4Isaiah 53:5 4Isaiah 53:6 17Isaiah 53:7-9 2Isaiah 53:7 13Isaiah 53:8 6Isaiah 53:9 10Isaiah 53:10-12 4Isaiah 53:10 5Isaiah 53:11-12 7Isaiah 53:11 13Isaiah 53:12 28