Isaiah 53-55, Chuck Smith teaching (C2000, 1979 to 1985)

Read as you listen: Chuck Smith on Isaiah 53

Read the opening of his teaching

When men made chapter and verse divisions, they did make mistakes. The Word of God is divinely inspired; it's inerrant. But men, for the sake of helping us to find scriptures and to memorize passages, divided the Bible into chapter and verses. And it's a very convenient way to reference. However, many times they made the divisions in the wrong place, and in our reading we are prone to read to an end of a chapter and then quit until the next reading. And sometimes the thought carries right through, so that in the dividing of the chapters, they should have ended chapter 52 with verse 12. And they should have started chapter 53 with verse 13, because the last three verses here definitely fit in with Isaiah 53. And so that we might see the relationship with 53, we will begin our study of chapter 53 with verse 13 of 52.