And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Christ bore griefs and sorrows without shrinking or sinking under them, though the load was heavy and the way long. He was smitten with the tongue by cavilers and contradicted on all sides, then smitten with the hand by blow after blow, scourged without mercy, wounded in hands and feet and side, till scarcely a whole skin remained on Him.
AI summary
Commenting on Isaiah 53:4-9
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death,.... These words are generally supposed to refer to a fact that was afterwards done; that Christ, who died with wicked men, as if he himself had been one, was buried in a rich man's grave.
Rather, "His grave was appointed," or "they appointed Him His grave" [HENGSTENBERG]; that is, they intended (by crucifying Him with two thieves, Mat 27:38) that He should have His grave "with the wicked." Compare Joh 19:31, the denial of honorable burial being accounted a great ignominy (see on Isa 14:19; Jer 26:23). and with . . . rich--rather, "but He was with a rich man," &c.