3 He is adespised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has aborne our bgriefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was awounded for our btransgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are chealed.
6 All we, like asheep, have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he aopened not his mouth; he is brought as a blamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgressions of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the arich in his death; because he had done no bevil, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to abruise him; he hath put him to grief; when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin he shall see his bseed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied; by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shallabear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the agreat, and bheshall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and made cintercession for the transgressors.
Chapter 15 then goes back into what's happening. Abinadi has been trying to preach and teach repentance and living the 10 commandments and in this chapter he talks about what Isaiah talked about in the verse above.
5 And thus the flesh becoming subject to the Spirit, or the Son to the Father, being one God, asuffereth temptation, and yieldeth not to the temptation, but suffereth himself to be mocked, andbscourged, and cast out, and disowned by his cpeople.
6 And after all this, after working many mighty miracles among the children of men, he shall be led, yea, even aas Isaiah said, as a sheep before the shearer is dumb, so he bopened not his mouth.
7 Yea, even so he shall be led, acrucified, and slain, the bfleshbecoming subject even unto death, the cwill of the Son being swallowed up in the will of the Father.
8 And thus God breaketh the abands of death, having gained thebvictory over death; giving the Son power to make cintercession for the children of men—
9 Having ascended into heaven, having the bowels of mercy; being filled with compassion towards the children of men; standing betwixt them and justice; having broken the bands of death, taken upon ahimself their iniquity and their transgressions, having redeemed them, and bsatisfied the demands of justice.
19 For were it not for the redemption which he hath made for his people, which was prepared from the afoundation of the world, I say unto you, were it not for this, all mankind must havebperished.
20 But behold, the bands of death shall be broken, and the Son reigneth, and hath power over the dead; therefore, he bringeth to pass the resurrection of the dead.
I don't have much thoughts to add on to this but I just wanted to share it because I think they are amazing chapters. They really painted a picture in my mind of all that Christ has done for us. It's amazing how EVERYTHING in this Gospel always leads to the Atonement. I guess it is the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST, why shouldn't it. I never realized until this past year how amazing the Atonement is and how powerful it is! From being able to repent or just turning hard days or decisions over to the Lord, the Atonement is how we make it through this life and return to our Heavenly Father. I can't fathom how life would be if we lived as Korihor taught in Almost 30 "that there could be no atonement made for the sins of men, but every man fared in this life according to the management of the creature; therefore every man prospered according to his genius, and that every man conquered according to his strength; and whatsoever man did was no crime" That to me is a terrifying thought! If that were the case I would not make it very far because I am not that knowledgeable and definitely not that strong!! What an amazing thing the Atonement is and I love that I am constantly learning new things about it everyday! :)
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