Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful

that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Everyone, welcome back to this new

season of the Year in the Bible podcast. My name is Alexa, and I'm here today with my co-host, Beth.

Hello. Yeah, every single Thursday, we will be diving into the Christ connection between the

Old Testament and New Testament passages that we've read. So like we mentioned earlier this week,

future weeks will look slightly different because we will be starting with the Old Testament

and then look at the New Testament. But today, we're still looking at passages from both the Old and the New Testament and seeing

how they point us to Christ and how they connect to each other. So first, we need to know a little

bit more about the context of Isaiah 53. So, Alexa, will you share a little bit about that with us?

Yeah, so Isaiah was a prophet during a time in which God's people

were in serious rebellion. God uses Isaiah to speak to his people, particularly Judah, to warn them

of the consequences for their rebellion if they don't repent. But God also uses Isaiah to speak promises

to his people, promising them hope and restoration.

And one way he does this is by speaking about a servant that he is going to send who was going to provide this restoration.

So Isaiah 53 is part of a collection of chapters that speaks about this servant.

Yeah, that's right. And it's important to note that scholars

actually refer to the servant as the suffering servant. His life is really far from glamorous.

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