Healing with Matthew 8.17 - Part 1
He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with sickness: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our sicknesses, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. […]
Isaiah 53:4 - “Our”
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: Himself took our infirmities, and bare our diseases. (Matthew 8:17, ASV)
Some critics of divine healing have argued that this quotation of Isaiah 53:4 pertains to Jesus’s earthly ministry only and not His redemptive work. That argument not only ignores the Holy […]