What was Isaiahs prophecy that Jesus fulfilled here?
(CP Isa 53:4-5). This is Isaiah’s prophecy that Mt 8:16-17 speaks of. It teaches us that there is healing for our bodies in Christ’s atoning death as well as salvation for our souls. Griefs and sorrows in V4 (KJV) mean sicknesses and pains. Jesus bore our sicknesses and our pains so that we could be healed of them the same as He became a sin offering that we could be forgiven our sins. This teaching is reinforced as we study the scriptures in detail. In Mt 8:17 the griefs and sorrows of Isaiah 53:4 are correctly translated as infirmities and sicknesses. Matthew asserts here that Isaiah’s prophesy was being fulfilled in the healings Jesus rendered to the sick, “…that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet Isaiah saying, Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses.” That is not teaching that Jesus completely fulfilled Isaiah’s prophesy before the cross and therefore there is no bodily healing in the atonement, as many believe. It teaches that by contemporaneousl
