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Living the Lutheran Lectionary a Weekly Study of the Scriptures for the Coming Sunday Since May 4, 2014 Page 1 of 26 Good Friday April 10, 2020 Lectionary Year A – the Gospel of Matthew Living the Lutheran Lectionary A weekly study of the Scriptures for the coming Sunday since May 4, 2014. An opportunity to make Sunday worship more meaningful and to make the rhythms of the readings part of the rhythms of your life. Available on line at: www.bethlehemlutheranchurchparma.com/biblestudies Through www.Facebook.com at “Living the Lutheran Lectionary”, “Bethlehem Lutheran Church Parma”, or “Harold Weseloh” All links in this on-line copy are active and can be reached using Ctrl+Click Gather and be blessed: Thursdays at 10 AM(5pm Kenya/Uganda): At Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 7500 State Road, Parma, OH 44134 and on line through https://zoom.us/j/815200301 Fridays at 7 PM in a house church setting: For details, contact Harold Weseloh at [email protected] Tuesdays at 1:00 PM (8pm Kenya time) via Zoom to the Lutheran School of Theology - Nyamira , Kenya (Currently suspended due to corona virus restrictions in Kenya.) On Facebook through Messenger in a discussion group shared by people throughout the United States, Kenya and Uganda. Contact Harold Weseloh on Facebook Messenger. https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/common/good-friday Hymn of the Day Lutheran Service Book (LSB) 438 The Lutheran Hymnal (TLH) 142 “A Lamb goes uncomplaining forth” Page 2 of 26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl-8VjeSnSQ TLH page + lyrics with Piano accompaniment by Andrew Remillard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FRRfak00g0 Heirs of the Reformation: Treasures of the Singing Church ℗ 2008 Concordia Publishing House Commentaries have been chosen because the author has written in a way that compliments the reading. Not all of the commentaries are from Lutheran sources. They have been edited for length and in some cases for additional content that is not in keeping with a Lutheran understanding of Scripture. Links are provided for those who wish to read the entire commentary. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. O.T. – “Surely he has borne our griefs” Psalm – “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Epistle – “Let us then with confidence draw near … and find grace to help in time of need.” Gospel – ““It is finished,”” Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), the same reading “Preparing to preach on Good Friday is preparing to wander about in the heart of the mystery of God’s reconciling activity in Jesus Christ and (most importantly!) inviting your hearers and by extension the world into the all-important mystery of faith. Isaiah’s Servant Songs, of which this Good Friday text is the fourth and final, hold a particular place within the theology of the church. I do not mention this as a means of ranking texts one above or below another. Rather, I draw our attention to the place of these texts in the interpretation of the church because in and by these texts the early church understood who Jesus of Nazareth was and is. And, quite frankly, they remain guiding texts in how we continue to understand who Jesus of Nazareth was and is…” http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=2820 Samuel Giere Associate Professor of Homiletics and Biblical Interpretation, Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa The LORD's Coming Salvation Verses 1-12 He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions 13 Behold, my servant shall act wisely;[a] he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. 14 As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, Page 3 of 26 and his form beyond that of the children of mankind— 15 so shall he sprinkle[b] many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths because of him, for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand. a. Isaiah 52:13 Or shall prosper b. Isaiah 52:15 Or startle Cross references: 1. Isaiah 52:13 : See ch. 42:1 2. Isaiah 52:14 : [ch. 53:2, 3] 3. Isaiah 52:15 : Lev. 4:6, 17 4. Isaiah 52:15 : ch. 49:7, 23 5. Isaiah 52:15 : Cited Rom. 15:21; [Rom. 16:25] 53 Who has believed what he has heard from us?[a] And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected[b] by men, a man of sorrows[c] and acquainted with[d] grief;[e] and as one from whom men hide their faces[f] he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. Page 4 of 26 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? 9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief;[g] when his soul makes[h] an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see[i] and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,[j] and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,[k] because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors. a. Isaiah 53:1 Or Who has believed what we have heard? b. Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken c. Isaiah 53:3 Or pains; also verse 4 d. Isaiah 53:3 Or and knowing e. Isaiah 53:3 Or sickness; also verse 4 f. Isaiah 53:3 Or as one who hides his face from us g. Isaiah 53:10 Or he has made him sick h. Isaiah 53:10 Or when you make his soul i. Isaiah 53:11 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll he shall see light j. Isaiah 53:12 Or with the great k. Isaiah 53:12 Or with the numerous Cross references: 1. Isaiah 53:1 : Cited John 12:38; Rom. 6. Isaiah 53:3 : [John 1:10, 11] 10:16 7. Isaiah 53:4 : [Matt. 8:17] 2. Isaiah 53:1 : See ch. 51:9 8. Isaiah 53:4 : Ps. 69:26 3. Isaiah 53:2 : ch. 11:1 9. Isaiah 53:5 : [Rom. 4:25] 4. Isaiah 53:2 : [ch. 52:14] 10. Isaiah 53:5 : Cited 1 Pet. 2:24 5. Isaiah 53:3 : ch. 49:7; [Ps. 22:6; Mark 11. Isaiah 53:6 : Cited 1 Pet. 2:25; [Jer. 50:6, 9:12] 17] Page 5 of 26 12. Isaiah 53:6 : 2 Cor. 5:21; [ver. 10; Col. 19. Isaiah 53:10 : [ver. 4] 2:14] 20. Isaiah 53:10 : [ver. 6] 13. Isaiah 53:7 : Matt. 26:63; Mark 14:61; 21. Isaiah 53:10 : [ch. 44:28] John 19:9; 1 Pet. 2:23 22. Isaiah 53:11 : [1 John 2:1] 14. Isaiah 53:7 : Cited Acts 8:32 23. Isaiah 53:11 : Acts 13:39; Rom. 5:18, 19 15. Isaiah 53:7 : [Jer. 11:19] 24. Isaiah 53:11 : [ver. 5] 16. Isaiah 53:8 : ch. 57:1 25. Isaiah 53:12 : ch. 52:13; [Phil. 2:9] 17. Isaiah 53:9 : Matt. 27:57, 60 26. Isaiah 53:12 : [Col. 2:15] 18. Isaiah 53:9 : Cited 1 Pet. 2:22; [Heb. 27. Isaiah 53:12 : ver. 6, 8, 10 4:15; 1 John 3:5] Do you agree with this approach to interpretation? “This is one of the most well known passages in the entire Old Testament. Yet, when we interpret this passage we need to be careful precisely because we are so familiar with it. The interpreter should keep three things in mind in studying this passage. First, we should not invert the Bible by working backward through history and using the events of the New Testament to interpret the Old Testament. God worked through historical events, not apart from them. Second, we need to view this passage in the literary context of Isaiah 40-55 (see The Turn Toward Hope: Isaiah 40:1-15). This passage reflects the major concerns of this part of the book of Isaiah, not our concerns.
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