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“He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3).
While He was here on earth, the Lord Jesus was the “Man of sorrows,” for He experienced sorrow and suffering in many different ways. He saw the ruin that sin had brought into His creation, and He really felt the heartache and pain that He saw all around Him in the lives of people. His love made Him feel this even more, for we feel it very deeply when those whom we love are suffering.
There was suffering in His own Person too, for He knew how to be tired, hungry and thirsty, as well as feeling the rejection of those whom He loved and came to save. But the greatest sorrow was when He bore the judgment of God on the cross, and in this He “carried our sorrows” (Isaiah 53:4). Those who know Hebrew tell us that the word for “carried” in verse 4 is the same word as is translated “bear” in verse 12, where it says, “He shall bear their iniquities.”
We may have sorrow in our own lives, but it is nothing compared to His sorrow!
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