Isaiah describes the last week of Jesus on earth and the intensifying of His suffering on our behalf. Isaiah recorded by THE SPIRIT in Isaiah chapter 53:
1 Who has believed our report? And to whom has the Arm of The LORD been revealed?
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Grief not only means sickness, but also weakness, distress, anguish, heartache, sadness, mourning (sadness of life), and misery. Jesus took our inner sickness as much as our outer sickness.
Sorrow means pain of the mind and body, mental and emotional pain of one who is hurt by others.
In His last hours on earth, Jesus carried our griefs and sorrows.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.
Why didn’t Jesus respond to His accusers? It was imperative that He accept the full weight of grief and sorrows so He did not call upon angels, negotiate a lesser judgment, or speak to delay the purpose of His death at Passover.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
9 And they made His grave with the wicked- But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His Mouth.
Why was Jesus betrayed? He had to experience the betrayal of Judas who had just kissed Him before betraying Him. How many of us have been betrayed as well? Most if not all. Jesus knows what it is like and knows how to help us get over the betrayal.
Jesus suffered emotional abuse.
The Beloved Disciple wrote by The Holy Spirit in John chapter 18:
15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.
16 But Peter stood at the door outside. Then the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought Peter in. 17 Then the servant girl who kept the door said to Peter, “You are not also one of this Man’s disciples, are you?” He said, “I am not.”
18 Now the servants and officers who had made a fire of coals stood there, for it was cold, and they warmed themselves. And Peter stood with them and warmed himself.
25 Now Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. Therefore they said to him, “You are not also one of His disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not!” 26 One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of him whose ear Peter cut off, said, “Did I not see you in the garden with Him?”
27 Peter then denied again; and immediately a rooster crowed.
The disciples spent 3 ½ years with Jesus and experienced the signs and wonders of His earthly ministry yet denied Him at His time of need.
There is not one sorrow or grief that you have experience that is foreign to Our High Priest! He fully understands us in all areas!