ÒWho has believed our
message, and to whom has the arm of the LORD been
revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty
to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we
should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their
faces he was despised and we esteemed him
not.Ó – Isaiah 53:1-3