Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37;
Matthew 8:14-17; Mark 1:29-34; Luke 4:38-41;
Matthew 4:23-25; Mark 1:35-39; Luke 4:42-5:11;
Matthew 8:1-4; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16
That evening they brought to Him many who were oppressed by demons, and He cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”
Matthew 8:16-17
Remember the four “Servant Songs” of Isaiah? The last of those “Servant Songs” is found in Isaiah 52:13-53:12. (See the August 23 post.) Here Matthew cites Isaiah 53:4 from that “Song”, applying it directly to Jesus and His healing ministry. The physical healings Jesus performs provide strong evidence that Jesus is, in fact, the promised Servant spoken of by Isaiah. But looking back at the rest of that passage in Isaiah, we can see that the Servant’s mission goes far beyond the physical and on to the spiritual — and that it is to cost Him dearly.
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