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 like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t […]
⛓ 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.
God sending his Son as the atoning sacrifice 'for our sins' echoes the Servant who bore our griefs and was made an offering for sin, the righteous one making many righteous. The vicarious, sin-bearing logic of the Servant Song informs John's account of love defined by the Son sent as propitiation.
High confidence"Christ suffered for us in the flesh" (4:1) reprises the Suffering Servant who suffered/bore in his body, the controlling christological frame of 1 Peter (cf. 2:21-25). Sets up the believer's call to share that mindset.
Medium confidence