Isaiah 42:1 Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom my soul delights.

On this Monday in Holy Week we remember the images of the servant in Isaiah—one who will suffer for us in extraordinary ways: silently, without doing injury or harm to anyone. As we walk the long pathway of Jesus in the final days of his life, I have to wonder: As he grew up reading and hearing those passages in Isaiah read in the synagogue, did he know?