Acts 3:12-13 to Isaiah 52:13

NT Text: Acts 3:12-13

OT Source(s):

• Isaiah 52:13 ("My Servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted")

Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Reference Type: Allusion

Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Typology (Direct Type, Forward-Looking)

Anchor Text: Isa 52:13-53:12 — The Suffering Servant

Significance: Peter's sermon at Solomon's Colonnade opens with the declaration: "The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus" (edoxasen ton paida autou Iēsoun). The verb edoxasen ("has glorified") and the title pais ("servant") together invoke Isa 52:13 (LXX: ho pais mou... doxasthēsetai sphodra = "my servant will be greatly glorified"). This is the same Servant passage underlying Jesus' own "lifting up" and "glorification" sayings in John (3:14; 12:23, 32), and Peter deploys it in Acts 3 to interpret the healing of the lame man: the power that healed him flowed from the glorified Servant who was handed over and denied (3:13b), then raised (3:15). The contrast between human rejection and divine glorification structurally mirrors Isa 52:13–53:3 (Servant exalted by God, despite being despised by people), making Acts 3:12-13 an explicit Servant Christology sermon.