What Happened to Jesus? Transcript
Written by Tim Estes
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Isa 53: Part 2 What Happened to Jesus?
OPENING
What did Jesus feel the day he died?
What did he experience?
What happened to Jesus the day he died?
BODY
Isaiah 53 was written about 700 years before The Passion of the Christ occurred.
But the descriptions are so vivid.
- It is like the writer watched all the event of the day and filled his report’s pad with what he say
- Then the writer returned to the office, and told his editor to “Stop the Presses”.
- He passionately wrote the story while it was still fresh on his mind
- It was printed and sent out as a late edition of the Jerusalem Herald.
It is so clear you can feel it.
But what DOES IT SAY.?
We are going to answer the question, “What happened to Jesus?’
- We will 1st look through the chapter and find what happened to him emotionally and mentally.
- Then we will repeat the process to find what happed to him physically.
1st the Emotion and mental aspect.
We don’t need to read far before we find words or phrases that describe his mental pain caused by how people treated him.
- Verse 3 says he was DESPISED and REJECTED
- The people involved this day did not see him as God’s Son, or God in the flesh.
- They held him in contempt
- They considered him unworthy of any respect.
- He was so low, that they thought of him as being less than human
- They hung him naked on the cross.
- Remember how they took all his clothes and divided them between the executioners
- He is described as a “MAN OF SORROWS”
- Remember how he came from heaven, taught so many people, yet his teaching were often rejected
- Immediately following his Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem a few days before, he cried over Jerusalem because they kept on rejecting him.
- A man of sorrows.
- He understood GRIEF
- He witnessed the isolation of diseases, like Leprosy
- Their isolation was every day, not like COVID isolation
- Extreme Loneliness
- But now, Jesus is completely alone.
- Even his followers leave him.
- Verse 3 also has how men HID THEIR FACES.
- Some considered him such a “bad person” that they turned their backs on him.
- And when he was beaten so badly, they hid their faces because they could not stomach looking at what was left of this mangled person.
- Have you noticed the phrase ESTEEMED HIM NOT.?
- He is God’s only Son
- He had represented the Father’s wishes all his life.
- But his own people considered him:
- without value
- unimportant
- “He doesn’t count.”
- But they spit on him.
- How do these actions make him feel emotionally?
- But that is not all.
- Verse 5 uses the word CHASTISE.
- He was the one accepting God’s corrective actions
- But he wasn’t guilty of anything.
- Have you ever been whipped but had done nothing wrong?
- 1 Cor 5.21 says he “knew no sin” but was treated as a sinner.
- God was being treated as a sinner.
- Have you ever been in a court room, or been on trial?
- Verse 8 speaks of Jesus receiving JUDGMENT
- His trial before the Jewish leaders was highly illegal.
- Pilate allowed the crowd to influence his decision.
- He, the giver of life, is sentenced by both “courts’ to be executed immediately.
- What does that do to anyone’s emotional state?
- All these together start taking their toll on Jesus.
- Verse 11 pictures a Jesus with ANGUISH OF HIS SOUL
- All the Rejection
- People leaving him alone
- Plus all the your:
- Guilt
- Anxiety
- Grief
- Pain
- The total effect of all this put together = Anguish of Soul.
- Verse 8 speaks of Jesus receiving JUDGMENT
- He witnessed the isolation of diseases, like Leprosy
- They hung him naked on the cross.
- The people involved this day did not see him as God’s Son, or God in the flesh.
All this put together is just what happened to him Mentally & Emotionally.
But the 2nd answer to the question “What happened to Jesus?” deals with the Physical suffering.
- Isaiah began to describe his Physical torture, in verse 4, with STRICKEN, SMITTEN BY GOD.
- God is punishing Jesus for carrying all the world’s transgressions and iniquities
- But God is using people to do His work
- Jesus was punched repeatedly
- Romans hated Jews, and Jesus was the “King” of the Jews.
- What do you think they are going to do?
- How much will they do?
- A similar, related word is found in verse 5. Did you see it?
- CRUSHED! It is the word The Hebrew word means to “beat to pieces”
- This is a good description of how much beating he endured.
- When you watched the movie “The Passion of the Christ” what did his face look like.
- A good picture of what actually happened.
- Then Isaiah says he was PIERCED in verse 5
- This is not the small piercings for jewelry.
- The Hebrew word is for piercings that cause death.
- Jesus’ hands and feet were pierced with Large Nails where he would not fall off the cross.
- And the position of those nails made it extremely difficult and painful to breath.
- When coupled with extreme exhaustion, those crucified often sagged on the cross, no longer able to push themselves erect so they can breathe.
- So, they passed out and died.
- Add to the intense suffering the word WOUNDED in verse 5.
- The best picture I can show you is found in that same movie The Passion of the Christ.
- Remember how they chained him to a short post and then flogged him over and over.
- How the metal stuck in his flesh and they ripped it out, creating deep gashes?
- That is the picture of Wounded.
- My final word is that of OPPRESSED, in verse 7.
- You know the expression “Make him pay.”??
- They made him carry his own cross while they drove him like an animal with a whip
- They continued to whip him even after he fell under the weight of the cross.
- They had no mercy, no compassion.
- The best picture I can show you is found in that same movie The Passion of the Christ.
- God is punishing Jesus for carrying all the world’s transgressions and iniquities
Isaiah described extremely well What Happened to Jesus.
- And he did it long before it happened.
All these horrible pictures, all the intense pain, and the mental anguish was for your good
But understand this: God’s tremendous love for you is demonstrated in Jesus’ suffering.
But God does expect something in return.
What he expects is too large to go in this conversation.
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NOTES on Isa. 53.3-11
Verse 3
He was Despised: to despise, hold in contempt, disdain
He was Rejected: rejected, forbearing, transient, fleeting, lacking; He who ceases from men,” that is, is no longer regarded as a man
Place PHYSICAL ONES HERE
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A man of Sorrows: anguish or (figuratively) affliction: – grief, pain, sorrow.; 1a) pain (physical) 1b) pain (mental).
Acquainted with GRIEF: malady, anxiety, calamity: – disease, grief, (is) sick (-ness).
Men HID THEIR FACES: 1) (Hiphil) hiding, act of hiding, one who causes people to hide before whom one covers the face in disgust
He was DESPISED: same as above.
ESTEEMED HIM NOT: Negative of ) to think, count, value, regard, be thought, to think upon, consider, be mindful of, to count, reckon, to be considered.
Verse 4:
He was STRICKEN: 1) to touch, reach, strike; to touch, to strike, to be stricken, stricken (participle), be defeated.
He was SMITTEN BY GOD. A primitive root; to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively): – beat, cast forth, clap, give [wounds], X go forward, X indeed, kill, make [slaughter], murderer, punish, slaughter, slay (-er, -ing), smite (-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound. beat, scourge, kill, slay (man or beast), attack and destroy, conquer, subjugate, ravage
VERSE 5
He was PIERCED (wounded): From H2490; pierced (especially to death); figuratively polluted: – kill, profane, slain (man), X slew, (deadly) wounded.
He was CRUSHED: A primitive root (compare H1794) to crumble; transitively to bruise (literally or figuratively): – beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.
He was CHASTISED: discipline, chastening, correction; 1a) discipline, correction; 1b) chastening
From H3256; properly chastisement; figuratively reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint: – bond, chastening ([-eth]), chastisement, check, correction, discipline, doctrine, instruction, rebuke.
chastisement — literally, the correction inflicted by a parent on children for their good (Heb_12:5-8, Heb_12:10, Heb_12:11). Not punishment strictly; for this can have place only where there is guilt, which He had not; but He took on Himself the chastisement whereby the peace (reconciliation with our Father; Rom_5:1; Eph_2:14, Eph_2:15, Eph_2:17) of the children of God was to be effected (Heb_2:14).
He was WOUNDED: From H2266; properly bound (with stripes), that is, a weal (or black and blue mark itself): – blueness, bruise, hurt, stripe, wound. 1) bruise, stripe, wound, blow
stripes — minutely prophetical of His being scourged
VERSE 7:
He was OPPRESSED: A primitive root; to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication to tax, harass, tyrannize: – distress, driver, exact (-or), oppress (-or), X raiser of taxes, taskmaster.
to press, drive, oppress, exact, exert demanding pressure
Lowth translates, “It was exacted, and He was made answerable.” The verb means, “to have payment of a debt sternly exacted” (Deu_15:2, Deu_15:3), and so to be oppressed in general; the exaction of the full penalty for our sins in His sufferings is probably alluded to. The expression “made him pay”.
He was AFFLICTED: same as above
VERSE 8
He was OPPRESSED: Different word than in verse 7.
From H6113; closure; also constraint: – X barren, oppression, X prison.
1) restraint, coercion; 1a) restraint, coercion
He was taken away (that is, cut off) by oppression and by a judicial sentence”; a hendiadys for, “by an oppressive judicial sentence” [Lowth and Hengstenberg]. Gesenius not so well, “He was delivered from oppression and punishment” only by death.
He experienced JUDGMENT: properly a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree
translate as the Septuagint: “In His humiliation His judgment (legal trial) was taken away”; the virtual sense of the Hebrew as rendered by Lowth and sanctioned by the inspired writer of Acts; He was treated as one so mean that a fair trial was denied Him
VERSE 10
He was CRUSHED: different word than in verse 5.
A primitive root (compare H1794) to crumble; transitively to bruise (literally or figuratively): – beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.
1a1) to be crushed; 1a2) to be contrite (figuratively) 1b) (Piel) to crush 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be crushed, be shattered
He was put to GRIEF: Practically, the same as found in Verse 3
VERSE 11
He suffered ANGUISH OF HIS SOUL. From H5998; toil, that is, wearing effort; hence worry, whether of body or mind: – grievance (-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable (-sery), pain (-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
Place MENTAL / EMOTIONAL here
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