The Grave of a King?
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.
Isaiah 53:8-9 NKJV
This prophecy reminds us again that the Messiah would be killed through oppression and evil judgment, yet He was innocent. Although the Messiah’s body was assigned to a common poor people’s grave, He would lay in a rich man’s tomb.
Jesus fulfilled this prophecy when He was murdered but hadn’t done anything wrong. When people were executed as criminals in Jesus’s time, their bodies were buried in a common grave, without honor and without a name. But Jesus never lay in that grave.
Instead, a brave believer named Joseph of Arimathea asked for Jesus’s body and lay the Lord in Joseph’s new tomb. So Jesus lay in a place of honor, just as the prophecy told us.
We can trust the truth of the Bible: Jesus was the only person in history who fulfilled Messianic prophecies.
Jesus is King of king and Lord of lords.