Isaiah 53 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: The Suffering Servant

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolLike Lost Sheep

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Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenLost Sheep

SHEEP → picture 3WAY → picture 1LOVE → picture 4BACK → picture 2

Grade 1God Brings Us Back

All we like sheep. → picture 4Turned to his own way. → picture 3Our peace. → picture 1He will see the light. → picture 5He bore the sins of many. → picture 2

Order:

1. Who has believed our message?2. For he grew up before him as a tender plant3. All we like sheep have gone astray4. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter

Grade 2God's Servant Loves Us

What are people like? Sheep (circle)
What do sheep do? Wander away (circle)
When do we wander from God? When we do wrong (circle)
What did God's Servant take? Our wrong things (circle)
What does He bring us? Peace (circle)

Grade 3All We Like Sheep

How did people treat the Servant? He was despised and rejected.
What have we all done like sheep? Gone astray
What did the Servant carry? Our suffering
What did the punishment on him bring us? Peace
Which New Testament passage says this is about Jesus? Acts 8:32-35

1: Who has believed our message?2: For he grew up before him as a tender plant3: All we like sheep have gone astray4: As a lamb that is led to the slaughter

Grade 4By His Wounds We Are Healed

What did people wrongly think about the Servant? That God was punishing him for his own sins
Whose sins did the Servant carry? Our transgressions, the iniquity of us all
Which New Testament passage uses the picture of straying sheep about Jesus? 1 Peter 2:24-25
How does the chapter end? In victory: he will see the light and be satisfied.

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5He Bore the Sins of Many

How is this song structured? Five stanzas of three verses, beginning and ending with exaltation
What Hebrew word is used for offering for sin? Asham, the guilt offering
Which New Testament verses quote or echo Isaiah 53? Matthew 8:17, John 12:38, Acts 8:32-35, Romans 10:16, and 1 Peter 2:22-25
What shows the Servant lives on after being cut off? He will see his offspring and prolong his days.

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.