Isaiah 53 is one of the most extraordinary prophetic and messianic texts of the Bible foretelling by about 700 years the amazing vicarious suffering of Christ the Messiah. I remember memorizing this chapter as a boy at Sunday School in London. The Messiah, opposite to what many might have expected, would be "despised and rejected... has no beauty or majesty to attract us to him... one from whom men hide their faces". The Messiah suffers not for anything he did but for our transgressions... for our iniquities... for the iniquity of us all. However the servant messiah was led to his death like a lamb led to its slaughter, yet he never contested it at all. Yet all was God's plan to redeem us and the suffering servant was exalted after his sacrificial atonement.
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