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“I gave My back to the smiters, and My cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not My face from shame and spitting” (Isaiah 50:6).
This verse is a prophecy that was made about the Lord Jesus hundreds of years before He came into this world, for Isaiah lived more than 700 years before Jesus was born. Godly men like Isaiah wondered sometimes why the Spirit of God led them to write this way, for there is no record in the Bible that Isaiah himself ever suffered this kind of treatment. It clearly refers to the Lord Jesus, and what men did to Him when they took Him to be crucified. All this was fulfilled exactly as we read in our verse, for Pilate scourged the Lord Jesus, while others pulled the hair off His face, and spit on Him. He went through all this because He loved us so much!
While we do not believe the Bible simply because prophecy has been so accurately fulfilled, yet it is one of the strongest proofs that the Bible is true.
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