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Who Would Believe It?

     He grew up like a tender shoot, like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. - Isaiah 53:2

     He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering. ...and we esteemed him not. - v. 3 

     Surely, he...carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God... He was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. - vv. 4-5  

     We all, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter.  - vv. 6-7 

     ...though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering...the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; ...my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. - vv. 9-11 

     Therefore, I will give him a portion among the great...because he poured out his life and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many and made intercession (for them). - v. 12 

     All this, 700 years before it occurred. And the Servant's name?

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