OT Notes Good Friday

Psalm 22 almost looks like a template for the account of the events of the end of the life of Jesus.

Is. 52:13-53:12 is the longest and most famous suffering servant passage. Again, some of its material is echoed in the accounts of the last day of Jesus. the servant is a representative figure, both individual and corporate, it seems to me.How do you think Isaiah meant it and how do see see resurrection/ascension

How do you come to grips with the notion of vicarious suffering (53:4-6).?

How does this long hymn apply and not apply to Jesus?.  as the exaltation or the cross itself, or both?

In v. 8 do you think that the unjust order was applied to the narrative of Jesus  or do you imagine an intake of breath when Christians read Isaiah in the light of the story of Jesus ( including, suffering, silence, and even the type of tomb)?

Why the emphasis on silent suffering? How is suffering ever redemptive?

v.10-how do you square this passage with the love of God? How do you square the crucifixion with that love in its operation, not its goal? The new Christian Century has a good piece by a British author on coming to grips with atonement concepts.

How do we avoid making a a passage such as this a glorification of suffering, especially of others?

Suffering falls into the abstract-perhaps one could emphasize one element of suffering from the Passion narratives. Otherwise, we get numb to the succession of pain.

It can be an instructive exercise to compare Passion descriptions in a variety of movies on Jesus.