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.
⛓ 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.
'How the Christ must suffer' rests on the Suffering Servant — 'a man of sorrows... wounded for our transgressions.' The necessity of the Messiah's suffering, which Paul says the prophets foretold, is grounded chiefly in this song.
High confidenceJesus 'must... suffer many things... and be killed' draws on the Suffering Servant who was despised, rejected, and stricken; the divine necessity ('must') of the Messiah's suffering reflects Matthew's Servant Christology.
Medium confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The Servant despised, wounded, and bruised stands behind the whole scourging scene; John reads the passion through the Suffering Servant. Coherence is strong across the chapter even where no formula is used.
High confidence