He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him. Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. All we […]
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
That 'the Son of Man must suffer many things... and be killed' draws on the Servant who was 'despised and rejected,' 'a man of sorrows,' who bore suffering and was 'cut off.' The necessity (dei) of redemptive suffering coheres with Isaiah 53's vicarious death; this is the foundational suffering-text behind Mark's passion predictions.
High confidencePaul reasons 'from the Scriptures' that the Christ 'had to suffer'; the Suffering Servant is the natural scriptural ground for a suffering Messiah, a recurrent NT proof-text. Volume modest in the narrative summary itself but thematic coherence with the synagogue argument is strong.
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