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Design: Steve Webb | Photo: Cdoncel on Unsplash Podcast Introduction Our reading today is Isaiah 51-55, and I’m calling the episode “The Healing." Comments on Isaiah 53  Did you notice that there were several references to the coming Messiah in today’s reading?  Chapter 53 talked quite a lot about Him. I’m sure you’ve noticed that in most every depiction of Jesus, His appearance is very attractive. He looks like someone who could draw a crowd from just His looks, right? But verse 2 says, “He had no special beauty or form to make us notice him; there was nothing in his appearance to make us desire him.”  So what drew people was not his appearance. It must have been his message. Go figure!  But that’s not what I really want to focus on today. I want to look at verse five. Here it is again, “But he was wounded for the wrong we did; he was crushed for the evil we did. The punishment, which made us well, was given to him, and we are healed because of his wounds.” Now, what I’m about to say