The Source of the Saying that Jesus is the Servant whom has been Chosen

Chapter III

The Sources of the Gospels and the Way of Writing Them

Section IV

The Texts that were attributed directly to the Old Testament in the Gospels

In this section we will examine the texts of the Old Testament that were attributed directly to it, and the Gospels authors said that they have not been fulfilled, and achieved only in Jesus and his time and his generation, to find out what is the truth and the reality of them, and if the Gospels authors have told the truth or not.

8 - The Source of the Saying that Jesus is the Servant whom has been Chosen

Matthew 12:14 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

Matthew 12:15 But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there. And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.

Matthew 12:16 Yet He warned them not to make Him known,

Matthew 12:17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:

Matthew 12:18 "Behold! My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased! I will put My Spirit upon Him, And He will declare justice to the Gentiles.

Matthew 12:19 He will not quarrel nor cry out, Nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets.

Matthew 12:20 A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench, Till He sends forth justice to victory;

Matthew 12:21 And in His name Gentiles will trust."

In this text Matthew writes that what Isaiah has said or prophesied before hundreds of years of the birth of Jesus did not happen but in his story about Jesus, which has no relationship between it and what Isaiah said, as we notice, because the story talks about an attempt of the Pharisees to destroy Jesus, so he withdrew from there and then he healed some people and he warned them not to make him known! And the text of Isaiah talks, as Matthew wrote, about the servant who has been chosen by the Lord, and that the LORD will put His Spirit upon him, and he will declare justice to the Gentiles, and mentioned some characteristics of him, such as he will not quarrel nor cry out, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets, a bruised reed he will not break, and smoking flax he will not quench, until he sends forth justice to victory, and in his name the Gentiles will trust, and the text did not speak about healing the sick or escape from his enemies. So, to find out what was the text talking about; we should read the text in the Book of Isaiah, which is written in the chapter forty-two, which is as follows:

Isaiah 42:1 "Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

This is the paragraph which had been quoted by Matthew, which is quoted from Hebrew Version, not from Septuagint Version, and this is usual, but what is unusual is that Matthew had quoted the second paragraph from Septuagint Version, not from the Hebrew Version! All this because that the full-text of each version does not help him to write his story, as will be shown shortly after.

The Hebrew Version

Isaiah 42:1 Behold My servant, whom I uphold; Mine elect, in whom My soul delighteth; I have put My spirit upon him, he shall make the right to go forth to the nations.

The Septuagint Version

Isaiah 42:1 Jacob is my servant, I will help him: Israel is my chosen, my soul has accepted him; I have put my Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles.

As we see that the version of the Septuagint identified who is the chosen servant who is Jacob, Israel, for this Matthew was forced to quote the first paragraph from Hebrew Version because it did not identify who is the chosen servant, for it serves his way or method or approach of writing which based on the Old Testament texts to record the life of Jesus, and did not quote from the Septuagint Version because it has identified who is the chosen servant and this will not help him to write his story.

Matthew and the other Gospels authors were sometimes quoting from the Hebrew Version, and sometimes from the Septuagint Version. And if both of them do not help them in their stories, they were writing texts and attribute them to the Old Testament, even if they were not written both in the Hebrew Version nor in the Septuagint Version, or writing texts that contain information which are not written in them or contradicted with it, as we have read previously, and as we will read later. Or quoting some paragraphs in the same story; some of them from Septuagint Version and the rest from Hebrew Version, as is the case in this story, etc., and all these things indicate to the lack of the divine source with them, whether directly or through the Holy Spirit, because if so, they should not distort the texts of the Old Testament, and this way or this method or approach in dealing with the texts of the Old Testament indicates that the Gospels have been written to conform with the texts of the Old Testament, not because the texts or the prophecies of the Old Testament have not been fulfilled until Jesus came!

As for the words "I have put My Spirit upon Him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles", so is it true that Jesus brought justice to the Gentiles, or brought judgment to the Gentiles, or made the right to go forth to the nations, according to the various versions?

The four Gospels did not tell us that Jesus has brought justice to the Gentiles or to the Jews themselves, or brought judgment to the Gentiles, or made the right to go forth to the nations, according to the various translations of the text, but the Gospels have told us the opposite of this, because when Jesus healed some patients; warned them not to make him known, as in this text, and when they brought a woman who was caught in adultery; refused to condemn her according to the Law, and said if any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her, (John 8:7), as well as he refused to divide the inheritance between two brothers and said man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you? as in the following text:

Luke 12:13 Then one from the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."

Luke 12:14 But He said to him, "Man, who made Me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"

These words and deeds and many others do not show that he brought justice to the Gentiles or to the Jews themselves, or brought judgment to the Gentiles, or made the right to go forth to the nations, so how Matthew says that the text talks about Jesus?!

Isaiah 42:2 He will not cry out, nor raise His voice, Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.

This paragraph says that the chosen servant does not cry out, nor raise his voice, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street, and this contrasts what is written in the Gospels about Jesus, both during his preaching like the Sermon on the Mountain, (Matthew chapters 5, 6 and 7), or when he called the Disciples, (Luke 5:13), or when he was on the cross, as in the following texts:

Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"

Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"

Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, "Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit’." Having said this, He breathed His last.

Isaiah 42:3 A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench; He will bring forth justice for truth.

This paragraph says that the chosen servant will not break, and will not quench until he brings forth justice for truth, and this was not the case of Jesus, because the God has forsaken him before his death, as in the previous texts, so, if the text was speaking about him his end must be different!

As for the saying "He will bring forth justice for truth", who can say that this saying refers to Jesus, while John wrote that he has refused to condemn the woman who was caught in adultery?!

Isaiah 42:4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, Till He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands shall wait for His law."

This paragraph says that the chosen servant will not fail nor be discouraged, till he has established justice in the earth, and here also who can say that this paragraph was talking of Jesus after what we have read earlier?

Is it true that Jesus had established justice in the earth or had set the right in the earth or had brought forth judgment to truth, according to the various versions, or at least as Matthew said "he sends forth justice to victory"?!

As for the last paragraph as we notice that Matthew did not write this paragraph, but quoted the paragraph of the Septuagint Version, while he has quoted the first paragraph from the Hebrew Version, as shown previously; and this matter is one of the strangest things and quotations, because we may agree that there are texts in the Old Testament predicted or talked about Jesus or others, or predicted or talked about some events that will take place in the future, but these texts must be written in all versions, and not as Matthew did; quoted a paragraph from version and the other from another version, because the first paragraph in Septuagint Version does not help him to write his story, and the second paragraph in Hebrew Version does not help him in writing his story as well, for this he quoted the first paragraph from Hebrew Version and the second one from Septuagint Version!

As for why Matthew did this, as for the first paragraph as shown previously, Matthew has quoted it from the Hebrew Version because it did not determine who is the chosen servant, while the Septuagint Version says that he is Jacob, Israel, and the second paragraph in Hebrew Version says that the coastlands shall wait for His law, or the isles shall wait for his teaching, and this will not help Matthew to write his story, because the faith of churches is based on the grace, not on the law, as shown previously, for this Matthew quoted the second paragraph from the Septuagint Version, not from the Hebrew Version!

Matthew 12:21 And in His name Gentiles will trust.

The Hebrew Version

Isaiah 42- 3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the dimly burning wick shall he not quench; he shall make the right to go forth according to the truth.

Isaiah 42- 4 He shall not fail nor be crushed, till he have set the right in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his teaching.

The Septuagint Version

Isaiah 42- 3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench; but he shall bring forth judgement to truth.

Isaiah 42- 4 He shall shine out, and shall not be discouraged, until he have set judgement on the earth: and in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

Isaiah 42:5 Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, Who gives breath to the people on it, And spirit to those who walk on it:

Thus says the Lord, the Creator of the heavens and the earth.

Let’s listen to what the Lord says, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it:

Isaiah 42:6 "I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, And will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the Gentiles,

Isaiah 42:7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.

"I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness", this means that the LORD is not that servant, or that servant is part of the LORD, as the churches say about their three gods that they are one! "And will hold your hand; I will keep you", and this has not been achieved in Jesus, because when they crucified him on the cross, he cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (Matthew 27:46), "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (Mark 15:34), and this indicates that the LORD did not keep him, and the text was not talking about Jesus.

As for the words "To bring out prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness from the prison house"; no one of the Gospels authors have mentioned that Jesus has brought out anyone from the prison, not even himself, so if he could not bring himself out of prison when he was arrested, how can we say that the text indicates to Jesus?

Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images.

He is the LORD, that is His name, and His glory will not be given to another, nor His praise to the carved images, i.e., that the Lord will not give His glory to anything of His creatures, including the chosen servant.

As for the paragraph "Nor My praise to carved images", it is very clear, even no need to comment, because the various churches have filled the earth with the carved images, statues and pictures, and offering for them all kinds of praise and glorification, this is clear evidence that the various churches and the laws of the faith disobeyed what was stated in the text of Isaiah, otherwise if they believe in this text; they should not make carved images, statues and pictures, and offering for them all kinds of praise and glorification.

Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them."

As for the paragraph "And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them", there are dozens of texts in the Old Testament that talk about the prophecies that have been fulfilled in the exact time and place for them, as shown previously, while there was no prophecy written in the Gospels on the lips of Jesus has been fulfilled as he said, as is shown in the chapter of the prophecies of Jesus in the book "Jesus the Son of Joseph the Carpenter ... Confusing Questions", including the following texts:

Matthew 26:64 Jesus said to him, "It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Matthew 16:28 "Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."

Matthew 19:29 "And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

And this means that the text was not talking about Jesus.

Isaiah 42:10 Sing to the LORD a new song, And His praise from the ends of the earth, You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!

Isaiah 42:11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, The villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing, Let them shout from the top of the mountains.

Isaiah 42:12 Let them give glory to the LORD, And declare His praise in the coastlands.

In these paragraphs the Lord asked people to sing a new song, so what is this song, and who will sing it?

Are they the people of Kedar, and the inhabitants of the villages of Kedar?

And I will let the readers to search for Kedar and the villages that were inhabited by Kedar!

Isaiah 42:17 They shall be turned back, They shall be greatly ashamed, Who trust in carved images, Who say to the molded images, ‘You are our gods’.

This paragraph says that some people will be turned back, for this they shall be greatly ashamed, so who are these people?!

These people are the people who trust in the carved images, who say to the molded images, ‘You are our gods’! So who are these people?!

Isaiah 42:18 "Hear, you deaf; And look, you blind, that you may see.

Isaiah 42:19 Who is blind but My servant, Or deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is perfect, And blind as the LORD’S servant?

Isaiah 42:20 Seeing many things, but you do not observe; Opening the ears, but he does not hear."

These paragraphs confirm twice that the text talks about the servant of the Lord, not about a god or the son of God; and this shows that Matthew has used Isaiah's text to write his story as his method or way or approach of writing, not because of that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet!

Isaiah 42:21 The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake; He will exalt the law and make it honorable.

This paragraph confirms again that the text does not talk about Jesus, because he has broken many commandments of the Law, such as the divorce, the Sabbath, the food and others as is written in the Gospels.

Isaiah 42:22 But this is a people robbed and plundered; All of them are snared in holes, And they are hidden in prison houses; They are for prey, and no one delivers; For plunder, and no one says, "Restore!"

Isaiah 42:23 Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come? Amen.

From this careful reading we conclude that Matthew had used Isaiah's text in his narrative to serve what he believes of multiplicity of gods, and to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on his Gospel away from the Revelation or the Spirit, which means that our law "do not accept the lying and false" applies to the story of Matthew.