In the 8th century B.C., the prophet Isaiah issued a series of visions about an extraordinary man he called “the Servant of the Lord”—a mysterious figure who would come in the future and bring the salvation of God. The last of these four visions is the most famous, and it’s not hard to see why. It’s a passage that has captured the hearts and minds of Bible students like few other texts in Scripture.

Kyle Yates, an Old Testament professor, called it, “the Mount Everest of Old Testament prophecy.” Polycarp, a 2nd-century bishop and martyr, called it, “the golden passional of the Old Testament evangelist.” Charles Spurgeon, a 19th-century Baptist preacher, called it, “a Bible in miniature, the gospel in its essence.”  Continue Reading…