He was not killed accidentally, or by the mob, but had a judicial trial; and was most unjustly condemned. While few, if any, of His contemporaries understood the real meaning of His death. 9. 'And they made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death (i.e., _when he was dead_. Comp. Ps. 6. 8); although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. He was appointed to die between two robbers, and would doubtless have been buried with them, had not Joseph of Arimathea intervened; when, in strange contrast with His ignominious death, He was honourably buried, with costly spices, and in a rich man's tomb. Although His judge repeatedly declared that He was innocent. 10. 'Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Yet after His death He was to see His seed, and _prolong His days_, _i.e._, rise again from the dead. The word _seed_ cannot mean here, actual children,[371] since He was to obtain them by His death. But it may well refer to the disciples, whom Christ saw after His Resurrection, and called His _children_.[372] [Footnote 370: Matt. 26. 62; 27. 14.] [Footnote 371: _Comp._ Isa. 1. 4.] [Footnote 372: Mark 10. 24; John 21. 5.] 11. 'He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many: and he shall bear their iniquities. And this is confirmed by their being spoken of as _the travail of His soul_, not body. While the latter expression also implies that He had had some intense mental struggle comparable to the bodily pains of childbirth; which is very suitable to His mental agony in the Garden and on the Cross. 12. 'Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.'