in the earlier places. But everything that is here: the worldwide consequences of his work after apparent failure, the lack of understanding, the willingness to undergo undeserved suffering, the certain success, all of these are present in embryo form in the earlier descriptions. Moreover, this section does follow straight on from what has been said in the previous four chapters (49–52). Those chapters have dealt at length with the problem of Israel’s estrangement from God, and God’s insistence that