Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 53:4

4 Surely he hath born our griefs, and carried our sorrows : yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted .

And whereas it may seem an unreasonable and incredible thing, that so excellent and glorious, & so innocent and just a person should meet with this usage, it must be known that his griefs and miseries were not laid upon him for his own sake, but wholly and solely for the sake of sinful men, in whose stead he stood, and for whose sins he suffered, as it here follows.

Yet our people, the Jews, were so far from giving him the Glory and Praise of such a prodigious condescension and compassion, that they made a most perverse construction of it, and so great was their prejudice against him, that they believed that he was thus disgraced and punished, and at last put to death by the just judgment of God, for his Blasphemy and other manifold Wickednesses.

Marginal references: Mat. 8. 1[illegible: 1+ letters].