Jesus, the Light to Salvation

Both the Servant and the Branch are designations in the Old Testament for the Messiah. Both present him in his humility. In Isaiah 42:1, the Messiahthe Servant is presented as the tender prophet (a passage applied to the Lord Jesus in Matthew 12:1820, KJV. Clearly, the Servant is now an individual rather than the nation of Israel as a whole. God would be delighted or well pleased with him. As the ...