Saturday…the in-between day…no one was expecting the resurrection…so they weren’t even waiting…except to anoint the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe it’s a good day for us to read Isaiah’s prescient account…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
13<\/sup> Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. 14<\/sup> As many were astonished at you\u2014 his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind\u201415<\/sup> so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup> Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2<\/sup> For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 3<\/sup> He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4<\/sup> \u00a0Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.\u00a05<\/sup> \u00a0But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.\u00a06<\/sup> \u00a0All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned\u2014every one\u2014to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Low in the grave he lay…Waiting the coming day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday…the in-between day…no one was expecting the resurrection…so they weren’t even waiting…except to anoint the body. Maybe it’s a good day for us to read Isaiah’s prescient account… 13 Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. 14 As many were astonished at you\u2014 his appearance was … Continue reading Dead.<\/span>
7<\/sup> \u00a0He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.\u00a08<\/sup> \u00a0By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?\u00a09<\/sup> \u00a0And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.\u00a010<\/sup> \u00a0Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.\u00a011<\/sup> \u00a0Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.\u00a012<\/sup> \u00a0Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah 52.13 – 53.12, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n