1 Peter 2:24
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”
King James Version
Peter applies Isaiah 53 directly: 'Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree… by whose stripes ye were healed' — the Suffering Servant's substitution accomplished at the cross.
Fulfillment References
Isaiah 53:4-6 Matthew 8:17 Deuteronomy 21:23 Galatians 3:13
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalHealing — of the soul from sin and of the body in His atonement's benefits — flows from the stripes; the apostolic church preached and practiced both (Acts 3:6, 16).
JewishIsaiah 53's servant is Israel, wounded among the nations (Rashi); the passage is a Gentile confession about Israel's suffering, not a messianic atonement.
CatholicThe Servant's vicarious suffering is the heart of the doctrine of redemption; 'the tree' echoes the wood of the cross.
ProtestantSubstitutionary atonement stated seven centuries in advance: he bore our sins, we are healed by his wounds.
DispensationalThe cross-work is complete; Israel's national appropriation of Isaiah 53 awaits the day they look on Him whom they pierced (Zech. 12:10).
Academic1 Peter 2:21-25 is often identified as an early Christian hymn built verse-by-verse on Isaiah 53 LXX — among the earliest sustained Christian uses of the Servant Song.
Scholarship & Sources
The hymnic analysis of 1 Pet. 2:21-25 is standard (Michaels, WBC; Peter Davids, NICNT); Rashi's Israel-interpretation and the earlier messianic readings (Targum Jonathan on Isa. 52:13) frame the Jewish-Christian debate.
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