8. 2 Timothy 3:16 highlights various Old Testament functions for New Testament believers. (Isaiah 53:1) Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? (Isaiah 53:2) For he shall grow up before him like a tender plant, and like a root out of dry ground: he has neither form nor beauty; and when we see it, there is no beauty for us to desire. (Isaiah 53:3) He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and familiar with sorrow: and we have hid our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not esteem him. (Isaiah 53:4). Surely he bore our sorrows and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him smitten, smitten of God, and afflicted. (Isaiah 53:5) But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and by his stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:6) We all, like sheep, have gone astray; we have directed everyone towards their own path; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:7) He was oppressed and afflicted, but he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearer is dumb, so he opens not his