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Read Isaiah 53:6. Select the best description.

Speaks of Jesus being accused of wrong, but He refused to defend Himself. He remained quiet.
Describes the physical mutilation that would occur at the time of the Crucifixion.
Describes the purpose of the death of Christ.
Foretells that the death of Jesus will not be in vain but that God will be satisfied with its results.
Tells us that Jesus was an offering for sin.
Speaks of the world's need of a Savior.

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the first one a)

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Preface

One thing I think we should make very clear. When you are working on a quotation, you should confine yourself to that quotation and nothing unless you are dealing with the clarification of a pronoun -- which you are not in this verse.

All of the answers given are true, but only one of them is true for 53:6. I'm going to quote it from 2 different Bibles. KJV says.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

The second one comes from the Good News Bible -- which I use for my own study purposes.

All of us were like sheep that were lost, each of us going his own way. But the Lord made the punishment fall on him, the punishment that all of us deserved.

I always choose the Good News Bible when I want to know what something means, but isn't the prose of KJV much more beautiful? So which answer is the one you want? It's very tempting to pick Foretells that the death of Jesus will not be in vain. Strictly speaking, I wouldn't pick it. It says nothing about God being satisfied -- in either version.

The next one begins with "Tells us that Jesus was an offering ..." It is only marginally better, but it is better. The problem with this one is that phrase at the end "The punishment that all of us deserved." That opinion offered by Isaiah is extremely important. Isaiah is a prophet and a prophet's words are to be taken seriously. They have the closest contact with God.

But you still have to get rid of the purpose of the death of Christ. I'm not convinced that this is the wrong answer. These kinds of questions are not mathematics, where you underline one thing and that is your answer. I wouldn't pick it because I don't like the word purpose. I think it implies that Jesus had a job. His life was not a job. It seems a terribly cold rendition of 53:6

So I've given you three choices. The correct answer is one of the three. I told you the one I would pick. I don't care what Edge has to say. That's the math answer as though the other 2 have no virtue at all. You pick. That's what literature is all about.

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