Isaiah 53:3

New Living Translation

He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.

Cross References

Psalm 69:29

I am suffering and in pain. Rescue me, O God, by your saving power.

Psalm 88:4

I am as good as dead, like a strong man with no strength left.

Isaiah 49:7

The Lord, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, says to the one who is despised and rejected by the nations, to the one who is the servant of rulers: “Kings will stand at attention when you pass by. Princes will also bow low because of the Lord, the faithful one, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Isaiah 50:6

I offered my back to those who beat me and my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard. I did not hide my face from mockery and spitting.

Isaiah 52:14

But many were amazed when they saw him. His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human, and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.

Isaiah 53:10

But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands.

Isaiah 53:4

Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins!

Micah 5:1

Mobilize! Marshal your troops! The enemy is laying siege to Jerusalem. They will strike Israel’s leader in the face with a rod.

Zechariah 11:8

I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month. But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too.

Matthew 26:67

Then they began to spit in Jesus’ face and beat him with their fists. And some slapped him,

Matthew 27:63

They told him, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver once said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise from the dead.’

Mark 10:33

“Listen,” he said, “we’re going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. They will sentence him to die and hand him over to the Romans.

Mark 10:34

They will mock him, spit on him, flog him with a whip, and kill him, but after three days he will rise again.”

Mark 14:34

He told them, “My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

Mark 15:19

And they struck him on the head with a reed stick, spit on him, and dropped to their knees in mock worship.

Mark 9:12

Jesus responded, “Elijah is indeed coming first to get everything ready. Yet why do the Scriptures say that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be treated with utter contempt?

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who dearly loved their money, heard all this and scoffed at him.

Luke 19:41

But as he came closer to Jerusalem and saw the city ahead, he began to weep.

Luke 8:53

But the crowd laughed at him because they all knew she had died.

Luke 9:22

“The Son of Man must suffer many terrible things,” he said. “He will be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He will be killed, but on the third day he will be raised from the dead.”

John 11:35

Then Jesus wept.

John 8:48

The people retorted, “You Samaritan devil! Didn’t we say all along that you were possessed by a demon?”

Deuteronomy 32:15

“But Israel soon became fat and unruly; the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed! Then they abandoned the God who had made them; they made light of the Rock of their salvation.

Hebrews 4:15

This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.

Hebrews 5:7

While Jesus was here on earth, he offered prayers and pleadings, with a loud cry and tears, to the one who could rescue him from death. And God heard his prayers because of his deep reverence for God.