Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 53:8-9

"By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke [was due]? And they made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth." — Isaiah 53:8-9 (ASV)

For he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked,

Dying between two thieves, as though he had been the greatest criminal of the three: He made his grave with the wicked,.

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

All that he suffered was not because he was guilty, but because he was innocent. The only crime which I have ever heard rightly charged against him is that which the poet sweetly describes as "found guilty of excess of love." It was indeed so. He loved us beyond all measure, and because of that love he died for us.

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Therefore he was allowed to be buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathaea. He was no felon, whose body must be cast out to the kites and jackals; but He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.