The Suffering Servant prophecy — the clearest OT portrait of the substitutionary atonement of the Messiah, written some seven hundred years before Christ's passion. Isaiah 52:13-53:12 forms one literary unit (often called the fourth Servant Song). It describes the Servant despised and rejected, a man of sorrows, wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the LORD laying on Him the iniquity of us all (53:5-6). His silence before His accusers (53:7) matches Christ's before Pilate (Matt 27:14). His grave with the wicked but with the rich in His death (53:9) matches Joseph of Arimathea's rich man's tomb after death between two criminals. The chapter closes with His resurrection vindication (53:10-11) and intercession for transgressors (53:12). The Ethiopian eunuch was reading this chapter when Philip met him (Acts 8:32-35) and from this passage Philip preached unto him Jesus. Isaiah 53 is the cross prophesied with stunning specificity centuries before the cross occurred.