Who is God's suffering servant?

Answer 1

AnswerJesus is never called a suffering servant in The Bible. However, there are several obscure references to suffering servants in the Book of Isaiah. Although these could not really be about Jesus, there are several places in the New Tesatament where the authors allude to Isaiah as if to suggest that the "Suffering Servant" passages could be read as if applying to Jesus.

Answer 2

A:Jesus is never called a suffering servant in the Bible, but there are several obscure references to suffering servants in the Book of Isaiah. Although these could not really be about Jesus, there are several places in the New Testament where the authors allude to the Book of Isaiah as if to suggest that the Suffering Servant" passages could be read as applying to Jesus.

Answer 3

In the book of Acts chapter 8 Philip comes across "a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians", the man is reading a passage in Isaiah.

The passage in Isaiah pictures One who was meek and silent before His enemies; One who was hurried away from justice and a fair trial; and One who had no hope of posterity because He was killed in the prime of manhood and while unmarried.

The eunuch asks Philip the question: "I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?"

Philip explains the scripture to the eunuch and tells him that Jesus of Nazareth is the suffering Servant of Jehovah, who Isaiah wrote about.

Answer 4

In a series of verses known as the Servant Songs (Isaiah 42:1-4, 49:1-6,50:4-11, 52:13-53:12), God promises to choose a servant who will teach his true way to the nations. Bruce Feiler (Where God Was Born) explains, "In some verses, the servant appears to be a person, in others a group, in some a real figure and in others imaginary. The only time the ‘servant’ is named, the reference is to Israel."

Christians have seen the Servant Songs as foreshadowing Jesus, although that was not the original intention.