以賽亞書53:1-12

53:1 我們所傳的（或譯：所傳與我們的）有誰信呢？耶和華的膀臂向誰顯露呢？
53:2 他在耶和華面前生長如嫩芽，像根出於乾地。他無佳形美容；我們看見他的時候，也無美貌使我們羨慕他。
53:3 他被藐視，被人厭棄；多受痛苦，常經憂患。他被藐視，好像被人掩面不看的一樣；我們也不尊重他。
53:4 他誠然擔當我們的憂患，背負我們的痛苦；我們卻以為他受責罰，被上帝擊打苦待了。
53:5 哪知他為我們的過犯受害，為我們的罪孽壓傷。因他受的刑罰，我們得平安；因他受的鞭傷，我們得醫治。
53:6 我們都如羊走迷；各人偏行己路；耶和華使我們眾人的罪孽都歸在他身上。
53:7 他被欺壓，在受苦的時候卻不開口（或譯：他受欺壓，卻自卑不開口）；他像羊羔被牽到宰殺之地，又像羊在剪毛的人手下無聲，他也是這樣不開口。
53:8 因受欺壓和審判，他被奪去，至於他同世的人，誰想他受鞭打、從活人之地被剪除，是因我百姓的罪過呢？
53:9 他雖然未行強暴，口中也沒有詭詐，人還使他與惡人同埋；誰知死的時候與財主同葬。
53:10 耶和華卻定意（或譯：喜悅）將他壓傷，使他受痛苦。耶和華以他為贖罪祭（或譯：他獻本身為贖罪祭）。他必看見後裔，並且延長年日。耶和華所喜悅的事必在他手中亨通。
53:11 他必看見自己勞苦的功效，便心滿意足。有許多人因認識我的義僕得稱為義；並且他要擔當他們的罪孽。
53:12 所以，我要使他與位大的同分，與強盛的均分擄物。因為他將命傾倒，以致於死；他也被列在罪犯之中。他卻擔當多人的罪，又為罪犯代求。

Who has believed our message
    and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
² He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
    and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
³ He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

⁴ Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
    stricken by him, and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed.
⁶ We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
    each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed and afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.
⁸ By oppression^[a] and judgment he was taken away.
    Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
    for the transgression of my people he was punished.^[b]
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
    and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
    nor was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
    and though the Lord makes^[c] his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
¹¹ After he has suffered,
    he will see the light of life^[d] and be satisfied^[e];
by his knowledge^[f] my righteous servant will justify many,
    and he will bear their iniquities.
¹² Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,^[g]
    and he will divide the spoils with the strong,^[h]
because he poured out his life unto death,
    and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
    and made intercession for the transgressors.

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    耶穌基督為了拯救我們，所面對到的苦難，是文字很難形容的。然而先知以賽亞竟然可以這樣詳實生動的描述，使我們感受到主耶穌為了拯救祂所愛的人，所付出的代價是何等的大啊！

      祂本是上帝的獨生子，竟然願意順服在上帝的旨意之下，取了奴僕的樣式，放棄原有與上帝平等的特權。不僅如此，還謙卑自己成為祭物。然而要成為祭物可不是那麼容易，要無罪的才能替有罪的死。若是自己有罪，為罪而死是罪有應得，沒有罪才是可以承擔我們所有的罪。也因為祂是無限的上帝，才能因一次的獻上，具有永久的功勞！而祂必須要有人的樣式，才能夠代替人受死，才能實實在在死於十字架上。

    也因為如此，基督必須是完全的上帝，而且是完全的人，才能真正拯救我們。也因此，在這裡再次強調「道成肉身」，不是道「變成」肉身，而是道「取了」肉身，神人二性聯合成一位格，這是我們得救的基石。