“For Our Iniquities”

K. Douglas Bassett

(Isa. 53:5)

The phrase “he was bruised for our iniquities” is more correctly rendered “he was crushed (Hebrew daka’) for our iniquities.” Jesus Christ was crushed in the Garden of Gethsemane. The word Gethsemane (Hebrew Gath Shemen) itself signifies “oil press.” Just as olives are crushed at an olive press to render pure olive oil, so the Anointed One was crushed to sanctify mankind. He suffered so mightily in the Garden of Gethsemane that he bled from every pore (Luke 22:44; Mosiah 3:7; D&C 19:18).

(Donald W. Parry, Visualizing Isaiah, [Provo, Utah: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2001], 91.)

Commentaries on Isaiah: In the Book or Mormon

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