Connection
He took up our infirmities
Isaiah's servant carried the sicknesses of others. Matthew saw that line kept when Jesus healed everyone brought to Him one evening in Capernaum.
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A New Testament passage quotes an earlier passage.
Direct quotation
New TestamentMatthew 8:17Open this recordRead the earlier witness
Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. Read the later witness
This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases.” Why FaithGraph draws this line
Matthew 8:17 quotes Isaiah 53:4.
Matthew applies the servant's bearing of infirmities to Jesus's evening of healings in Capernaum.
Evidence
The explanation above is FaithGraph editorial content, not Scripture.