Healing Is a Part of Redemption
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Was Jesus disobedient? Certainly not, and He was never sick. Was Jesus rebellious and
disobedient? No, and He had everything He needed. He had abundance, and He enjoyed nice
things. Did He ever have broken peace or anxiety? Did He have times of depression? No,
because He was not punished. He was blessed. He lived in the blessing, not the curse, because
He was obedient, not disobedient.
But here, the prophet is seeing Him being treated like the worst criminal and seeing Him smitten
of God. You’ll have to use the eyes of your spirit to see this. Let’s look at some other
translations.
The Leeser Bible says, “Only our diseases did He bear Himself and our pains He carried.”
The Goodspeed Bible says, “It was our pains that He bore. Our sorrows that He carried.”
The Jewish translation says, “Surely our diseases He did bear and our pains He carried.”
The New American Bible says, “It was our infirmities that He bore and our sufferings that He
endured.”
The Amplified Bible and the Knox say, We considered Him as Someone punished by God,
“stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God.”
A person would be punished by God because of sins, disobedience, breaking His laws, or
rebellion.
Isaiah 53:5-6 in the Young’s Literal Translation says, “And he is pierced for our transgressions,
Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace [is] on him, And by his bruise there is
healing to us.” By the results of His beating, to us there’s healing. “All of us like sheep have
wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The
punishment of us all.”
The punishment for all of your mistakes and failures would have been broken fellowship with
God. Your sins would have stayed on you. You would have had broken peace, no confidence,
and you would have had to go to hell when you died. But it also includes being sick and broken
and defeated in this life. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God, so the righteous
Judge should punish those who have sinned, and the punishment involves all of these things.
That is justice, and it ought to be that way—except if someone else will take it for you.
God is the righteous Judge of all the earth, and He knows what is fair and what is not. He set this
up from the beginning—that Someone else could take your place and pay it, and it’s just as paid
as if you paid it yourself. Jesus took our place, and He took the punishment for all sin and broken
covenant. He took the punishment which included sickness, and it happened specifically when
He was tied to the post and beaten. People could see the soldiers beating Him. What they could
not see was the spiritual blow.
