Jesus Christ is the most unique character of history. All time is marked by His extraordinary life. Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “I know men, and Jesus Christ was no man.”

Ever since His short 33 year life, men have exhausted themselves in writing about His sublime life. Even more spectacular is that before He was born men were writing about Him.

Seven and a half centuries before Jesus would be born, the prophet Isaiah told about many events of His spectacular life. Isaiah tells that He would be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14). He also tells of His lofty position (Isaiah 9:6).

In Isaiah 53, the prophet gives us a composite view of the Savior. He speaks of His special birth, His simple life, His substitutionary death, His saving resurrection, and His sovereign reign. All of this in 33 years. But, for what purpose?

“He was pierced through for our transgressions, and crushed for our offenses…He bore the sin of many, and interceded for the transgressors” that He might “justify the many.”