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NASB | John 12:41 These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 12:41 Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him. [Is 6:9, 10] |
Bible Question:
In the N.I.V bible it says that Isaiah saw jesus' glory, in reference to Isaiah 6:10. But in most bibles it uses the word "his" instead of "jesus". In the original greek text the word jesus is not mentioned. Did the niv translators have the right to insert the name jesus? How do we know that john was talking about jesus. anti-trinitarians say that to insert the name jesus is unjustified and is doctrinaly based. So my question is "How can we be sure that It was Jesus' glory or that it was just God manifesting hinself? |
Bible Answer: "John, Isaiah and the Final Summary of Jesus’ Public Ministry ... New Testament quotations from the Old Testament must always be read with the full context of the quote in mind. The New Testament writers assume you will know the passage in question, and know it so well that a few words or even a mere allusion will call to mind the whole passage (in much the same way that “O say can you see” is suf. cient to cause most Americans to instantly recall the entire “Star-Spangled Banner”. Bearing this fact in mind we now turn to John’s use of two different texts from the prophet Isaiah to see what he is trying to suggest to his readers about the summation of Jesus’ public ministry. John’s first citation (v. 38) is from Isaiah 53:1. Why this passage? Because it is the clearest and most detailed Old Testament prophecy of the ministry, meaning, and work of the Suffering Servant Messiah. Line after line and verse after verse of the prophecy summarizes Jesus rejection by his own people, emphasizes the Johannine theme of Jesus as the Lamb of God, describes in eerie detail the redemptive suffering, death, and resurrection and the life given to the world by him. The second passage (v.40) is from Isaiah 6:10. This passage comes from the scene in Isaiah where God commissions the prophet to begin his work. Isaiah is called by God at the height of the kingdom of Judah’s prosperity when all seems well and the Chosen People are fat, dumb, and sinful. Isaiah beholds the seraphim praising God (in imagery strikingly similar to that vision that John himself will have in Revelation 4:8) in worship that is unmistakably liturgical. Indeed, part of Isaiah’s vision is a permanent fixture of the Christian liturgy of worship (Isaiah 6:3 is the basis of the “Sanctus” in the Mass). Interestingly, in John’s vision in Revelation 5, the one being worshiped is “a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain” (Rev 5:6), the same Lamb who is revealed repeatedly in John’s gospel and who, according to Isaiah, is the Suffering Servant who “was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth” (Isaiah 53:7)." © copyright 2002 • Distributed by www.catholicexchange.com 3 |