Isa 53:11, Joh 12:24 | JFB | STEP | 11. Jehovah is still speaking. see of the travail —He shall see such blessed fruits resulting from His sufferings as amply to repay Him for them ( ). The "satisfaction," in seeing the full fruit of His travail of soul in the conversion of Israel and the world, is to be realized in the last days ( ). his knowledge —rather, the knowledge (experimentally) of Him ( ). my . . . servant —Messiah ( ). righteous —the ground on which He justifies others, His own righteousness ( ). justify —treat as if righteous; forensically; on the ground of His meritorious suffering, not their righteousness. bear . . . iniquities

Isaiah 53:11

11. Jehovah is still speaking.

see of the travail—He shall see such blessed fruits resulting from His sufferings as amply to repay Him for them (Isa 49:4, 5; 50:5, 9). The "satisfaction," in seeing the full fruit of His travail of soul in the conversion of Israel and the world, is to be realized in the last days (Isa 2:2-4).

his knowledge—rather, the knowledge (experimentally) of Him (Joh 17:3; Php 3:10).

my . . . servant—Messiah (Isa 42:1; 52:13).

righteous—the ground on which He justifies others, His own righteousness (1Jo 2:1).

justify—treat as if righteous; forensically; on the ground of His meritorious suffering, not their righteousness.

bear . . . iniquities— (Isa 53:4, 5), as the sinner's substitute.

John 12:24

24. Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit—The necessity of His death is here brightly expressed, and its proper operation and fruit—life springing forth out of death—imaged forth by a beautiful and deeply significant law of the vegetable kingdom. For a double reason, no doubt, this was uttered—to explain what he had said of His death, as the hour of His own glorification, and to sustain His own Spirit under the agitation which was mysteriously coming over it in the view of that death.