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• Isaiah 54Bible

  Isaiah 54 is a prophecy promising restoration to Zion, who has become like a forsaken woman. Drawing on God's oath after Noah's flood, it proclaims an unchanging covenant of peace.

• Isaiah 55Bible

  Isaiah 55 is a prophetic chapter that opens with a free invitation to all who thirst, continues with an exhortation to seek the LORD and return to him, and closes with the promise that his word will surely accomplish its purpose.

• Isaiah 53:5Bible Verses

  Isaiah 53:5 is the central verse of the Song of the Suffering Servant, declaring that he was wounded for our transgressions and that with his stripes we are healed. It is a key text for the atoning death of Christ. Pentecostal traditions and other denominations disagree over whether the "healing" it describes includes physical healing.

• Isaiah 53:1Bible Verses

  Isaiah 53:1 is a verse lamenting that scarcely anyone can believe the report concerning the Suffering Servant. It is frequently discussed because the Gospel of John and the Epistle to the Romans cite it in connection with unbelief in Jesus and the gospel.

• Isaiah 53:4–6Bible Verses

  Isaiah 53:4–6 is a passage in which the speakers confess that the "Suffering Servant" suffered because of the transgressions and iniquities of others. Because the New Testament quotes it in reference to the sufferings of Jesus, it figures prominently in discussions of the doctrine of the atonement and of divine healing.

• Acts 8:32–35Bible Verses

  In this passage Philip explains to an Ethiopian eunuch, who was reading the passage in Isaiah 53 about the one "led as a sheep to the slaughter," that the words refer to Jesus. Because it is a leading text identifying the "Suffering Servant" of Isaiah 53 with Jesus, it is frequently cited and discussed.

• Isaiah 53:10–12Bible Verses

  This passage concludes the fourth "Servant Song" in the Book of Isaiah and declares that the servant who suffered and died bears the sins of many and is ultimately exalted. Christians read it as a prophecy of Christ's atoning death and resurrection, and it is frequently cited in connection with the doctrine of the atonement.

• 1 Peter 2:25Bible Verses

  In this verse the apostle Peter tells suffering believers that they, once like sheep going astray, have now returned to Christ, "the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls." The verse concludes a passage that draws on Isaiah 53 and is frequently cited in discussions of conversion, shepherd imagery, and the office of bishop.

• Isaiah 50Bible

  In Isaiah 50 the LORD answers the charge that he has abandoned his exiled people, after which the Servant of the LORD speaks in the first person of remaining obedient in the midst of suffering. Verses 4–9 are known as the "Third Servant Song."

• Mark 9Bible

  Mark 9 is the chapter of the Gospel of Mark that recounts Jesus' transfiguration on a high mountain, his healing of a boy possessed by a spirit, his second prediction of his death and resurrection, and the disciples' dispute over who is the greatest, followed by his teaching on servanthood and on causing others to stumble.

• Job 19:25Bible Verses

  Job 19:25 is Job's confession in the midst of his suffering: "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth." The church has long read this verse as pointing to Christ and the hope of the resurrection, while scholars differ over the identity of the redeemer and what Job expected.

• Matthew 20:28Bible Verses

  In this saying, Jesus declares that he came to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. The verse is frequently cited as a teaching on the example of servanthood, and it also figures in discussions of the meaning of the atonement and the scope of "many."

• 1 Peter 2:23Bible Verses

  First Peter 2:23 states that Christ, though reviled and made to suffer, did not retaliate but committed his cause to God, who judges righteously. The verse is frequently cited as a model of refusing to retaliate in the face of unjust suffering.

• Job 1:20–22Bible Verses

  In this passage Job, having lost his possessions and his children all at once, grieves and yet falls down before God, confessing, "The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away." The passage illustrates faith amid suffering and is frequently quoted at funerals and in settings of consolation.

• 1 Peter 2:24Bible Verses

  A verse stating that Christ bore our sins in his own body on the cross so that believers might turn from sin and live righteously. Drawing on Isaiah 53, it is widely cited in discussions of the atonement, the Christian life, and divine healing.

• SufferingDoctrine & Theology

  Suffering is the pain and hardship that people experience. In Christianity the term refers especially to the Passion that Jesus Christ endured on the cross and to the trials believers face because of their faith or in the course of life.

• Problem of EvilDoctrine & Theology

  The problem of evil is the theological and philosophical question of why evil and suffering exist in the world if God is omnipotent and perfectly good.

• Via DolorosaHistory

  The Via Dolorosa (Latin for "Way of Sorrow") is a route in the Old City of Jerusalem that, according to tradition, Jesus walked while carrying the cross from the place of his sentencing to Golgotha. Pilgrims traditionally walk it while meditating on his sufferings.

• Passive ObedienceDoctrine & Theology

  Passive obedience is a theological term for the obedience by which Jesus Christ, in the place of sinners, bore the penalty of sin through his suffering and death on the cross. It is paired with active obedience, by which he kept the law perfectly.