Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand. After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall […]
⛓ Read Isaiah 53 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →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.
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A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The Servant who makes his life an offering for sin and bears the sin of many provides the scriptural template for Christ giving himself as a ransom for all. The substitutionary self-offering 'for many' is universalized by Paul to 'for all.' The Servant Song is a primary source for the ransom theology of verse 6.
High confidenceThe Servant who 'pours out his soul to death,' 'bears the sin of many,' and makes his life a guilt offering 'for many' is the controlling source for 'to give his life as a ransom for many.' The distinctive vicarious 'for many' (rabbim) and the substitutionary death match decisively. This is the chapter's major Servant allusion, high in Volume and Coherence.
High confidenceKEY allusion. 'The Son of Man came... to give his life as a ransom for many' (20:28) compresses the fourth Servant Song: the Servant 'pours out his soul to death' and 'bears the sin of many' (Isa 53:12), making his life an offering (asham, 53:10). 'Give his life' (dounai tēn psychēn) + 'for many' (anti pollōn) maps onto the LXX Servant who is handed over for the 'many' (polloi, Isa 53:11-12). Vicarious, substitutionary death — the figural fulfillment of the Servant.
High confidenceThe Servant who makes his life an offering for sin and bears the sin of many stands behind the idea of Christ as atoning sacrifice for the whole world. "Not for ours only" extends the Servant's vicarious suffering beyond Israel. The righteous one who justifies many parallels "Jesus Christ, the righteous."
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