Welcome to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. This year we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of scripture. Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New, seeing how they connect and point to Jesus. Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful that through studying these passages each week you will see how Christ is not only present throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.
Hi friends, welcome to season four of the Year in the Bible podcast. This season we are going through our study Christ in all of Scripture. My name is Beth and I'm here with my co-host Alexa. Hi friends. Today we are looking at week two of Christ in all of Scripture and going over the annotation prompts from day three, where we are taking time to really sit with this passage from Isaiah 53, seven through eight.
How was this annotation day for you, Alexa? Was there anything in particular that you wanted to talk about today? Yeah, I thought it could be helpful to share what I did for the prompt that says to highlight any words or phrases that point to Christ.
There might be some of you who feel a little stumped by that prompt, or perhaps you want to hear how someone else responded to that prompt. So hopefully my response helps in some sort of way. So for me, I noted the phrase, did not open his mouth, that appears twice in the passage. That phrase made me think about what we read about. Jesus in 1 Peter 2.22, where Peter says that no deceit was found in Jesus's mouth.
And when he was insulted and when he suffered, he did not insult in return or make any threats. Yeah, I love that. And that passage from 1 Peter is actually referencing Jesus's trial, which we read about in the gospels. Jesus doesn't speak or try to defend himself, but he willingly takes on all of the false accusations that the Pharisees and Pilate are throwing at him. And that's because he knows that he actually has to die for the sins of the people.
So was there anything else in this passage that you noticed that pointed to Christ? Yeah, the language of lamb and sheep also made me think about how Jesus is described as our Passover lamb or the lamb of God. Like when John says about Jesus in John 129, look, the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
So I highlighted those words and made a note of that as well. How cool. So this passage that was written hundreds of years before Jesus was even born references him and the way and the reason that he was going to die. The Bible is so cool.
It really is. And I think there's other language that's used in this passage that also points us to Jesus, like the verbs afflicted, cut off and struck, like all of that points us to Jesus's sacrifice on the cross and the amount of suffering that Jesus experienced on the cross. So there's just... a lot of ways we see Jesus in this passage, which I just find really fascinating.
Yeah, this passage is such a good example of how to see Jesus in the Old Testament as a whole. Thank you for sharing all of that with us, Alexa. Tomorrow, we're going to be looking at this passage next to the passage that we read from Luke a couple days ago. And we're going to see how both of these passages connect and tell us more about who Jesus is and what he accomplishes.
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