Twenty-Seven words That is how many words are in Isaiah 53:6; yet it is the Gospel in its entirety. To understand this verse is to have enough understanding of The Gospel, and it is The Gospel that is the power to save. Let’s walk through this verse:

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned – everyone – to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

All we like sheep have gone astray;

• A sheep mindlessly goes where it shouldn’t

• In disobedience to the shepherd, the sheep does what it shouldn’t

• The shepherd saves the sheep from the consequences of their disobedient straying

• We are just as mindless, and disobedient as sheep that need to be saved

we have turned –

• We have turned away from God and pursued sin, we have run toward the things of this world