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“His visage was so marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men” (Isaiah 52:14).
When the Lord Jesus suffered on the cross for sin, it tells us here that His face was marred more than any man, and His form (body) more than the sons of men. What does that mean? We know that the Jewish leaders punched him in the face, and that Pilate scourged Him. The soldiers placed a crown of thorns on His head, and nailed Him to the cross. However, we know too that many people have had their bodies seriously injured from car accidents, industrial accidents, attacks by wild animals, etc. Does this verse mean that the face and body of the Lord Jesus were injured more than any other person? I believe the thought goes deeper than that.
The Hebrew word for “marred” is used only one other time in the Bible, and there it is translated “corruption,” for this is one of the meanings of the word. I believe that this meaning shows us what the word means in our verse today. It was not only the physical suffering that the Lord Jesus felt so much, terrible though it was. Rather it was His being made sin for us, and bearing our sins in His body during the three hours of darkness, that made His face and His body marred more than any man. He was made to be corruption for our sakes. How this ought to touch our hearts!
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