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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Isaiah 53 This chapter treats of the mean appearance of Christ in human nature, his sufferings in it, and the glory that should follow. It begins with a complaint of the small number of those that believed the report concerning him, the power of God not being exerted, Isaiah 53:1, the reason of this general disbelief was the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Who hath believed our report?.... Or "hearing" (a). Not what we hear, but others hear from us; the doctrine of the Gospel, which is a report of the love, grace, and mercy of God in Christ; of Christ himself, his person, offices, obedience, sufferings, and death, and of free and full salvation by him: it is a good report, a true and faithful one,...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The two great things which the Spirit of Christ in the Old-Testament prophets testified beforehand were the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow, 1 Pet. i. 11. And that which Christ himself, when he expounded Moses and all the prophets, showed to be the drift and scope of them all was that Christ ought to suffer and then to enter...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Nobody ever does believe either prophets or preachers except through the work of God’s Spirit and grace. The Lord’s arm must be revealed, or else the truth proclaimed by his servants will never be accepted. All the prophets speak in these words of Isaiah, as if they all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? All the prophets reported that which had been revealed to them concerning Christ, they testified what they knew with regard to Jesus of Nazareth, the suffering Saviour; yet how few, comparatively, of the Jewish people, —how few, indeed, of any people, compared with the great mass of mankind, accepted their testimony,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? This is a cause for sorrow upon sorrow, — for the prophets to have God’s message to deliver, and yet for men to reject it, — for them to have to tell it, but to tell it in vain. Yet, dear friends, this has been the lot of some of God’s most faithful servants in all ages,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? It is sometimes the lot of God’s most faithful servants to labour unsuccessfully. As old Thomas Fuller quaintly says, “He maketh some to be as the clouds that empty their rain over Arabia the stony while others are pouring down their showers over Arabia the happy.” Yet we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? The prophet seems to speak in the name of all the prophets, lamenting the general unbelief concerning Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The report concerning him is very clear. It comes from God: it is for our salvation. And yet how many disbelieve it! In fact, all do. Until...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed! It is no new thing for gospel ministers to be disappointed. Even Isaiah; the most Evangelical of all the prophets, who might well be placed at the head of the College of Preachers, feels compelled to say, in the name of all that sacred brotherhood, “Who hath believed our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? This is the continual cry of the men of God. The sent ones of God who come to bear testimony of the Lamb of God have no easy time of it. With broken heart they have to go to their Master, and say, “Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,.... Which springs out of the earth without notice; low in its beginning, slow in its growth, liable to be crushed with the foot, or destroyed with the frost, and no great probability of its coming to any perfection; or rather as a little "sucker", as the word (b) signifies, which grows out of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. This is Israel’s King, the long-promised Messiah; yet when he comes to Bethlehem, see what “a tender plant” he is! Look at the house of David, almost extinct;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. Christ hath both form and comeliness to the spiritual eye; but, to the carnal, he seems only like ordinary men, except that his visage is more marred than...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: This is why Christ was not received by those to whom he came, — and why the testimony of the prophets concerning Christ was rejected by those to whom it was delivered, — because he was not revealed to them as a towering palm-tree or widely-spreading cedar: but,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he — That is, Jesus — Isa_53:2. Shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. Carnal minds are unbelieving minds. They are so because the beauties of Christ are spiritual, and in their natural state they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. There was nothing about Jesus Christ to attract the attention of those who look for pomp and splendor. His religion is all simplicity; it is plain truth;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he shall grow up before him — That is, the Messiah shall grow up before God — Isa_53:2. As a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. When Christ came, he was very lovely to those who could judge of spiritual beauty. In form and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. Carnal minds never did see beauty in Christ, and never will. Christ as the great sacrifice is always rejected.