suffering servant
Wounded for others
The suffering servant is a figure in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Isaiah who bears the sins and afflictions of others, enduring pain and humiliation for their redemption.
Christians traditionally interpret these passages as prophecy of Jesus Christ's sacrificial death.
More broadly, a suffering servant is anyone who accepts hardship in service to others: She saw herself as a suffering servant, absorbing the family's dysfunction so others wouldn't have to.
- MessiahProphesied divine deliverer
- crown of thornsBraided barbed headpiece
- GandhiIndian independence leader
- scapegoatUnfairly blamed person
- wounded healerHelper shaped by suffering
man of sorrows · archetype · atonement · redemption · hero · tragic figure · altruism · martyrdom · prophecy · covenant · Holocaust victims · sacrifice · Joan of Arc · Nelson Mandela · Martin Luther King Jr. · bearing witness · empathy · selflessness
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