The Man Who Cursed on Calvary
Part 4
"Have you read the story of our Lord Jesus Christ," I asked.
"You mean the Gospels.
Yes, I have, but to be perfectly frank, I have ridiculed the entire story of His miraculous birth, His resurrection, and other things so long that I find it very difficult to take it seriously.
The last few evenings I have been reading the book of Isaiah, in the Old Testament.
My, how that fellow can sling the language!
I have always been a great admirer of oratory, and real eloquence holds me spellbound.
But I have never read anything finer than the speeches of that old prophet!
"I was thinking last night that if I could only be a Christian by believing Isaiah, and did not have to believe the New Testament, I would be prepared to make the change immediately."
Opening my Bible, I said,
"I am going to read you a passage from the book of the prophet Isaiah.
I will read about an unnamed man, and when I finish I want you to tell me of whom I am reading."
"Oh," he replied, "that would be quite impossible!
I am not familiar enough with the Bible to do anything like that."
"I do not think you will have any difficulty! Just let me read it to you."
And so I read the entire fifty-third chapter, which I am reproducing here because some readers may not be any more familiar with it than this young man, and I want you to have its precious words before you:
